Artie Shaw was a musician's musician. A gentleman who always treated his players right, he was better to work for than Goodman, who was a perfectionist and tended to scream at his guys. Between them, they had the best drummers: Shaw and Buddy Rich; Goodman and Gene Krupa. Great music!
That's mad inaccurate but okay. Shaw himself admitted to being a tyrant with a lot of his musicians who didn't do what he said. Not to mention how he treated his many wives.
The guy smiling at Artie around 1:30 just helps to make the music that much more enjoyable. It’s easier to get into something when you know that the parties involved are genuinely enjoying it.
This is proper music, a song built up in layers with real instruments. Just like how you make a song on your computer (Garage Bands on mac) built up in layers with electronic samples. After years DJ'ing I've only recently staring to learn the clarinet, I have massive respect for anyone who can play an instrument and read music.
Wonderful video....and really snappy dressers! Even the drummer wears a jacket and tie. The musicianship of his band was out of this world. Artie Shaw and Bennie Goodman ... there will never be anyone close to their talent ever again.
The whole concerto is 12-15 minutes long. They must have had to cut it down to make it fit into the movie. Gotta have time for Fred to dance doncha know.
They are both outstanding players, Benny and Artie. Benny played for years with the Boston Philharmonic orchestra, and you can hear he was classical trained. Artie is a little more adventurous and done things on the clarinet, Benny would not have done. Comes down to personal preference. Love them both in their own right. Fabulous musicians.
Yeah. I personally hate it when you can hear classical being mixed in to jazz, which is why artie is for me. Fun fact, artie was actually much better at classical than benny, which surprised me...but I guess if you listen to the end of these foolish things, I guess its true.
I could never do that in a million years. The reason I said that is because I just like to be really good at things that I love. It just hurts me, personally, when you think that your really good and then you hear something as beautiful as this... for me it's like a deep blow to my pride. I don't know if you've ever encountered this deliemma.
Drummer is NF "Nick Fatool" Fatool first played professionally in Providence, Rhode Island, which he followed with time in Joe Haymes's band in 1937 and Don Beston's in Dallas soon after. In 1939 he played with Bobby Hackett briefly, and then became a member of the Benny Goodman Orchestra. He became one of the most visible drummers of the 1940s, playing with Artie Shaw (1940-41), Alvino Rey (1942-43), Claude Thornhill, Les Brown, and Jan Savitt. In 1943 he moved to Los Angeles and took work as a session musician, recording profusely.
My friend from school (Jake Hinson) now has this very clarienet (well one of Artie's from this era) and recently we went to New York and played this with him as a solo on the clarinet :)
Interestingly Shaw was born in May 1910 whereas his great rival Goodman was born in May 1909. Boy was a benevolent 12 months to have produced two of the greatest instrumentalists in the calvacades of music.
Well, I don't want to get into the whole Goodman vs. Shaw debate as both had UNEARTHLY talents... but for me... Shaw wins hands down! This is a great clip. Thanks for posting! Artie Shaw... man!!!
Ask any person today, and the majority will tell you they do not like jazz. They think it's boring, because they think of the modern, free jazz variety. Then let them listen to this or Benny Goodman. They'll dig it. This jazz is a true art form, and is America's greatest musical contribution to the world.
¿Qué tiempos aquellos en que la música dependía mucho de la destreza y sabiduría de los músicos? Cuando todo era mucho más orgánico, más natural... Gracias mil por vuestro legado maravillosos intérpretes de sentimientos acústicos...
Artie Shaw was both handsome and talented he had the most beautiful women in the world eating out of his hands just with his looks, his manners and his clarinet. people no longer have that much class
It doesn't take way the fact that he's an amazing clarinetist and an accomplished musician. Sure he had bad posture, that just made it harder to get the sound he had, but he still got it.
Buddy rich played pretty well in this too(Im a drums/percussion player so i also focused on him as well as Artie Shaw). Great show in general. I'd love ti ine have the chance to play with a highly skilled wind instrument player like Artie Shaw in a more modern style of course.
Just been listening to Artie Shaw on Tony Palmer's magnificent 'All You Need is Love' history of popular music. Obviously a great man. Well worth getting Palmer's box set.
Witnessed a fine performance of this last night by the University of Birmingham Big Band - a 22 piece ensemble consisting of at least as many astrophysicists and mathematicians as music students (though you'd never guess it). The soloist was superb, with a wonderfully liquid tone throughout, but, alas, that final ridiculously high note proved too much for them, and after three fluffed attempts at it, they conceded defeat. Still got a massive round of applause though.
are you kidding. the first recording of jazz was in 1917 with the dixieland tunes. there was a bass, banjo, piano, drums, clarinet, tenor, trombone and cornet.
I like him even more so than Benny Goodman. Though Mr. Goodman's sound was amazing at times, he didn't quite challenge himself quite like Arthur Arshawski did, and almost non of Artie's songs sounded the sames, even as he got older and later abandoned music.
And, before I get any nasty replies, I'm 16 years old. I was the First Tenor Sax in my state's All-State Jazz band last year, and the Principal Clarinet in my state's All-State Symphonic Band this year. So, no, I'm not biased towards jazz. Both classical and jazz are true art forms. Thank you for your time.
Was..Let's put it staight: I'm a clarinetist and I love this music. But it comes from the past, however excellent.We don't live in this world any more for the better or the worst. For the worst in my opinion. How come that only classical works for the clarinet have'nt a wrinkle?Because they express the outstanding qualities of the instrument, not what we would like the instrument to express.And though it's inebriating to play this old fashioned jazz. Maybe we should revisit the instrument. My advice is go on playing. It's a manifest against the world as it is today. love and peace
@FlinckJanne1981 The clarinet has a has an approximately cylindrical bore, is made out of wood, uses a slightly larger reed, larger mouthpiece, and uses a different fingering system than the sax. The soprano sax has a conical bore, and is made out of brass, which makes it sound different. Also, the clarinet overblows at the 12th, not the octave like the saxophone.
The average show on broadway cost anywhere from $0.30-$3.40, movies were $0.20-0.30, so his shows could have cost anywhere from $0.05-$4 at a premium. With 1940 things were still ramping up out of the great depression, you had a world war going on and not too many people could afford much with wartime rationing either. Going to see him would have been a luxury in some cases. Best lead I could find hope it helps.
Artie is great.... Another beautiful clarinetband: OK-DREAMBAND. Really amazing sound.... CD "Clarinet-Dreams" is availbale for downloading (iTunes, amazon and more). My favorite track is "Your Eyes Are So Blue".
*Double That was only the 2nd C over the staff Low C Middle C High C Double C Triple is the 9th line over the staff and is a ring more than the full note he played
As Ron Burgundy would say, Artie was “kind of a big deal”! This is a Fred Astaire movie in 1940. He married Lana Turner that same year which was followed by Betty Kern, the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern (1942-43) and actress Ava Gardner (1945-46). Besides other affairs with famous singers and actresses, he was married 8 times. Not an easy guy to live with!
Amen. The first jazz men were trombones, clarinets, and drums with the occasional banjo or guitar. But, the clarinet was the electric guitar of it's day. Got all the girls!!!
Anyone noticed that Shaw's playing on this clip and issued record is different, so this Concert is jazz improvisation rather than written music as it is always played today.
