The Mystery of Artie Shaw... returns!

Artie Shaw was an enigma. A self-taught, brilliant clarinetist blessed with movie-star good looks, he became one of the defining musicians of the Big Band era. Yet at the height of his fame, he walked away from the music business, leaving behind a legacy as fascinating as it was influential.

In the early 1990s, Ted Hallock—a passionate jazz scholar and former Oregon State Senator—spent a week with Shaw, then in his early 80s, recording an extraordinary series of in-depth conversations about music, life and the times in which he lived.

The result was The Mystery of Artie Shaw, a 13-part radio biography and interview series that aired on public radio stations across the United States and Canada. After its original broadcast, the series quietly disappeared and remained unavailable for more than three decades.

Now, through a collaboration between the Ted Hallock Estate, the Artie Shaw Estate, Larry Slater of Jazz Connections and All About Jazz, this remarkable archival series returns, giving listeners the rare opportunity to hear Artie Shaw tell his own story—in his own words.

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Chapter 1: Whatever Happened to Arthur Arshawsky?

Chapter 2: I Want To Be A Sideman

Chapter 3: Manic in Manhattan

Chapter 4: So You Liked it Then?

Chapter 5: Art Goes Artie

Look for 8 more episodes every Friday.

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Posted to Publisher's Desk IN THE All About Jazz GROUP
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