![]() ![]() His incorporation of stringed instruments could be attributed to the influence of the classical composer Igor Stravinsky. He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation "Interlude in B-flat", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed Third Stream. Shaw valued experimental and innovative music over dancing and love songs. The show was well received, but was forced to dissolve in 1937 because his band's sound was not commercial. During the swing era, his big bands were popular with hits like " Begin the Beguine" (1938), " Stardust" (with a trumpet solo by Billy Butterfield), "Back Bay Shuffle", " Moonglow", "Rosalie" and " Frenesi". In 1935, he first gained attention with his "Interlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York. In 1932, Shaw joined the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra and made several recordings with the outfit including " It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Fit as a Fiddle". In 19, he played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders, where he was exposed to symphonic music, which he would later incorporate in his arrangements. From 1925 to 1936, Shaw performed with many bands and orchestras from 1926 to 1929, he worked in Cleveland and established a lasting reputation as music director and arranger for an orchestra led by the violinist Austin Wylie. Returning to New York, he became a session musician through the early 1930s. At 16, he switched to the clarinet and left home to tour with a band. Shaw bought a saxophone by working in a grocery store and began learning the saxophone at 13. Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism. The family was Jewish his father was from Russia, his mother from Austria. Īrthur Jacob Arshawsky was born on May 23, 1910, in New York City, United States he was the son of Sarah ( née Strauss) and Harold "Harry" Arshawsky, a dressmaker and photographer. Following the breakup of that band, he began to focus on other interests and gradually withdrew from the world of being a professional musician and major celebrity, although he remained a force in popular music and jazz before retiring from music completely in 1954. Following his discharge in 1944, he returned to lead a band through 1945. He served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1944, during which time he led a morale-building band that toured the South Pacific. Shaw also recorded with small jazz groups drawn from within the ranks of the big bands he led. His music influenced other musicians, such as Monty Norman in England, with the vamp of the James Bond Theme, possibly influenced by 1938's "Nightmare". Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of what became known much later as Third Stream music, which blended elements of classical and jazz forms and traditions. The record eventually became one of the era's defining recordings. ![]() Though he had numerous hit records, he was perhaps best known for his 1938 recording of Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine." Before the release of "Beguine," Shaw and his fledgling band had languished in relative obscurity for over two years and, after its release, he became a major pop artist within short order. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction.
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