Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw is a figure I find genuinely fascinating, partly for the music and partly for the restlessness behind it. Widely called one of jazz's finest clarinetists, he led one of America's most popular big bands right through the late 1930s and early 40s, the absolute peak of the swing era. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and NEA Jazz Masters honor confirm what the records already tell you. What pulls me in, though, is that he was also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, a clarinetist who walked away from fame more than once. A virtuoso who kept questioning his own success feels rare and very human to me.

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Name (English)

Artie Shaw

Name (Japanese)

アーティ・ショウ

Reading

あーてぃ・しょう

Born

May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

film actor / bandleader / composer / conductor / clarinetist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

High school

Hillhouse High School

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• NEA Jazz Masters

• Official sitehttps://www.artieshaw.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie%20Shaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320065

Tags

• New York
• film actor
• bandleader
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.