Jazz Rhythm

Dave Radlauer keeps the courses coming with a fresh serving of his favorite food themed songs. Join him as he digs into the the greatest musical meals of jazz, blues and hokum.

Join Dave Radlauer on a three part exploration of the music of Artie Shaw. See him perform here...

Artie Shaw was born Arthur Arshawsky in Manhattan, New York, in 1910. He went on to become a major musical figure as a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer and arranger. From 1925 until 1936, Shaw performed with a variety of bands and orchestras including those of Johnny Caverello and Austin Wylie. He began to gain fame, however, after forming his own group in 1936.

There is an unbelievably tragic symmetry between the lives of Jimmy
Blanton and Charlie Christian. Both were string players who broke into
a major big band in the fall of 1939, completely rewrote the
vocabularies of their instruments, never led recording sessions of
their own, played at the prophetic birth-of-bop jam sessions at
Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, and died from the same illness in their
twenties in the same year.

Part two of Dave Radlauer's exploration of Buck Clayton.

The English critic Stanley Dance coined the term "mainstream" in the 1950s to describe the style of those swing era players who fell between the revivalist and modernist camps. Clayton was precisely one of the players to whom this appellation most applied.