Artie Shaw

Mr. Nolan is the author of "Artie Shaw, King of the Clarinet: His Life and Times" Norton, just out in trade paperback.

Keeping Those Big Bands Swinging Tom Nolan 2011

Other notable documentaries get up close with such creative personas as Robert Frost, Isaac Stern, Artie Shaw, Paul Robeson, the legendary members of the Algonquin Round Table and the everyday vocalists of "Close Harmony," a 1981 film that captures a concert collaboration between a youth chorus from the Brooklyn Friends School and a group of senior citizens from Flatbush.

Storied Moves and Moving Stories Steve Dollar 2012

BIANCULLI: Artie Shaw, speaking to Terry Gross in 1985.

100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw 2010

At that time, the biggest and hottest nightclub in town was the Pennsylvania Hotel's Café Rouge, where such Swing Era icons as Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers and Artie Shaw performed.

Michael Sigman: A Hotel, a Phone Number and a Son 2010

Artie Shaw began his career playing with dance bands.

100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw 2010

The current edition of the PRI show, "Riverwalk Jazz," also is devoted to Artie Shaw.

100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw 2010

Here's clarinetist Artie Shaw in Arthur Schwartz's haunting "Alone Together," which opens Henabery's hallucinatory "Symphony of Swing."

Pre-MTV: 'Big Band, Jazz And Swing' Music Videos 2010

(Soundbite of music) VITALE: By the time he was 30, Artie Shaw reportedly earned $60,000 a week.

Artie Shaw At 100: Celebrating A Swing Era Sensation 2010

Larkin scholar Trevor Tolley and friend and jazz writer John White have organised the music to reflect the poet's jazz evolution – from Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw and Count Basie in his teens, to the white Chicago swingers and clarinetist Pee Wee Russell at Oxford in the 40s, and on to the big-band music, and even a little Dave Brubeck, that accompanied his gin-powered jazz evenings at home with cronies in later years.

Various Artists: Larkin's Jazz 2010

DAVID BIANCULLI, host: This weekend marks the hundredth birthday of bandleader and clarinet player Artie Shaw, one of the true jazz greats.

100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw 2010