Artie Shaw archive
Watch Five Classic Jazz Takes On 'Porgy And Bess' WFIU
September 1, 2011 – The controversial Gershwin opera has long been an inspiration to jazz musicians. Hear five songs. WFIU
Listen Artie Shaw At 100: Celebrating A Swing Era Sensation
May 23, 2010 – The self-taught clarinetist and bandleader lit a fire under a generation of jitterbuggers.
Read Get To Know Clarinetist Artie Shaw WESA
May 22, 2010 – Explore Artie Shaw's swinging musical persona of the late 1930s in five songs. WESA
Listen 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw
May 21, 2010 – Fresh Air remembers one of jazz's greatest clarinetists with excerpts from a 1985 interview.
Listen Artie Shaw: The Reluctant Jazz Star
October 9, 2008 – The clarinetist's ideas were often too modern, and his temperament ill-suited to the role of star.
Listen Artie Shaw, an American Original
July 25, 2006 – A recording of Shaw's 1940 Concerto for Clarinet, in concert from the Hot Springs Music Festival.
Listen A Tribute to Artie Shaw
January 3, 2005 – Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw died Dec. 29 at the age of 94.
Listen Shaw Recalled as Giant of the Dance Band Era
December 31, 2004 – Shaw was one of the great musicians of the dance band era. NPR's Steve Inskeep has a remembrance.
Listen Artie Shaw Dies at 94
December 30, 2004 – Also a clarinetist and arranger, Shaw achieved fame with his 1938 recording of "Begin the Beguine."
Listen Artie Shaw, Cafe Tacuba, Elvis Costello
April 1, 2002 – A new collection of songs from Artie Shaw; the Hasidic New Wave's Afro-Semitic Diaspora; Buena V...
Listen Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'
March 8, 2002 – Shaw explains why he walked away from fame in a Morning Edition interview.