Artie Shaw

They said, have you ever heard of Graham Bond, the Graham Bond organisation? I said, no.

I said, I've heard of Errol Gardner, Dave Brubeck, you know, Artie Shaw.

No, no, no, no. I'm not talking about jazz.

We're talking about real rhythm and blues.

And right now I've got another string of webs coming our way.

We'll be entering a nightmare with Artie Shaw, and then a creepy feeling will wash over us with Jelly Roll Morton.

And finally, these haunted nights will continue on with Duke Ellington.

I hope you dig these early jazz Halloween treats.

I mean, their music was the big band era.

If my dad was alive today, he'd say to you, Bill, can you play some Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw? I mean, Dorsey.

Yeah.

It's a matter of what you grew up.

To the left of them are Mr. and Mrs. William Powell.

And below them are Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. and Mrs. and Mrs. and Mrs. Artie Shaw.

Well,

one of the king and queen couldn't get

Glenn Miller...

Artie Shaw, all those great original charts, and we still have those and

play those.

And this concert is going to focus on the music of Sammy Nestego, right?

John told me that was the first voiceover he'd ever done, and it was before he'd done the acting.

Andy Garcia as Mario Baza, Jeff Goldblum as Artie Shaw.

It was just very exciting.

And also, it was just wonderful to have a voice in print all of a sudden come alive like that.

But now that we have some more perspective, I think we can appreciate all these guys coming.

despite their internal rivalries and critical ups and downs.

And another figure that's very important, and I think somebody who's kind of forgotten these days, but was massively influential in the 30s and 40s, and one of the things I've sort of discovered in my fascination, and I'm talking about Artie Shaw, the great white swing band leader, and he, along with, Artie Shaw's really the guy who makes the Great American Songbook, the Great American Songbook.

Before that, they were just pop hits, whether it was Cole Porter or the Gershwins, these songs were just new hit songs that are usually associated with Broadway shows and dance bands would do dance arrangements.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]Artie Shaw, his version of Harold Arlen's My Shining Hour.

For this next album, the compositions and the playing are great, but the story behind it is incredible.

It's a long and complicated story of racial discrimination against Japanese Canadians during and after the World War II through the War Measures Act, where Japanese Canadians, including those such as most of Sharon Minamoto's family who were born in Canada.

And all, all the great jazz and rock, uh, acts-

... were there

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