Jazz: Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, the great clarinetist, composer, arranger and bandleader, died in December. This site for an NPR show includes sound clips of a 2002 interview, music samples, photos, and links. <http://www.npr.org/>

And the Shaw page from Ken Burn's jazz extravaganza isn't that bad given the director's apparent disrespect for white jazz musicians.
<http://www.pbs.org/>

The epitaph Shaw wrote for Who's Who in America reads:
"He did the best he could with the material at hand."