Read, listen and learn with stories in Special English. Double-click any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary. DOUG JOHNSON: I’m Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA ...

One of the more interesting lives in recent American culture ended on December 30, 2004, when clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw passed away at his modest book-filled home in the Los Angeles suburb ...

Click to open image viewer. This B-flat clarinet (top instrument), serial number 22457, was made by Buffet-Crampon & Cie. Paris, France. 1938. It was previously owned and used by American jazz ...

Clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, who sold 100 million records before quitting the music business half a century ago, died on December 30, 2004, at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. He was ...

I first encountered Artie Shaw’s playing as a teenager. At that time, the local New York TV stations would play old movies until sign-off, usually the same dozen old movies. In the regular rotation of ...

For anyone who became aware of jazz in the late 1950s, Benny Goodman's was a familiar name as well as sound, thanks to the late discovery of a recording of the complete Carnegie Hall Concert of 1938, ...

Artie Shaw was a virtuoso clarinetist whose good looks and eight wives (including Lana Turner and Eva Gardner) made him a darling of the gossip page. He was also a bandleader extraordinaire and a ...

Linton Chiswick returns to the Age of Swing to look at the lives and work of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw... Artist Artie Shaw (Roy Eldridge - trumpet; Dodo Marmarosa - piano; Barney Kessel - guitar; ...

On the upcoming 100th anniversary of Artie Shaw's birth, Fresh Air remembers one of jazz's greatest clarinetists and big-band leaders with excerpts from a 1985 interview. In the 1930s and '40s, the ...

Sixty-five years or so ago, the biggest star in Hollywood, as well as the biggest stud, was a clarinetist whose combination of good looks, extraordinary musical talent, and great intelligence made him ...

Linton Chiswick returns to the Age of Swing to look at the lives and work of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw... Artist Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (Chuck Peterson, John Best, Bennie Privin - trumpet; ...