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Date of Birth
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23-May-1910
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Place of Birth
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New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Arthur Arshawsky, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, King of the Clarinet, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
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Profession
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Composer, Musician, Clarinetist, Actor, Bandleader, Film Score Composer, Author, Music Arranger
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Artie Shaw was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction.
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. Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine", was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of Third Stream, which blended classical and jazz, and recorded some small-group sessions that flirted with be-bop before retiring from music in 1954.
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