Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393062015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Tom Nolan, the author of the critically acclaimed and Edgar Award–nominated Ross Macdonald: A Biography, is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s Leisure & Arts page
A question that arises while reading this enthralling biography is who was the bigger pain in the ass. From Booklist In the late-1930s–1940s heyday of swing, fans had to be “for” either Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw (1910–2004). --Ray Olson . If Goodman was miserly, mean-spirited, and by Shaw’s lights, more concerned with the clarinet than with music, Shaw was astonishingly cruel to parents, wives, sons, and personal assistants, dismissive of his audience, and so perfectionist that he drove himself out of music a half-century before he died. Nolan deploys his interviewees’ testimony so extensively, adeptly, and intelligently that most
The Holes in the New Artie Shaw Bio (They're Shaw's Fault) Ray Schultz In 1985, in what I now view as a life event, my wife and I saw Artie Shaw perform at the Blue Note in New York. I passed the 75 year-old jazz star in the hallway, and I was about to approach him, but his manner said stay away. It wasn't personal. Shaw disliked fans; in fact, he said, "Keep `em all away from me," that very night. So I never talked to Artie Shaw. Still, I felt I knew him, having read his memoir, "The Trouble With Cin. Michael P. Zirpolo said Three Chords for Beauty's Sake The Life of Artie Shaw. Review of Three Chords for Beauty's SakeThe Life of Artie ShawA biography of clarinetist Artie Shaw has been published. Its title is Three Chords for Beauty's SakeThe Life of Artie Shaw, W.W. Horton Co., by Tom Nolan. While this biography is a welcome survey of Shaw's life, it is far from definitive. Mr. Nolan, like many interviewers, researchers, and documentarists before him, devotes far too many pages to quoting Mr. Shaw, thus p. Good intro to Shaw's life and music I'm not that familiar with Shaw's music, but my folks liked him, so I'd heard about him. I read the book because it sounded like Shaw was an interesting personality. He was a brilliant musician who threw it all away for the cause of literary ambitions, but it seems to me his literary talent was nowhere near the level of his musical talent. I’m still not clear on his motivation, whether he was actually so intellectually driven
The handsome Shaw had seven wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner). 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. His frequent “retirements” earned him a reputation as the Hamlet of jazz. Tom Nolan, who interviewed Shaw between 1990 and his death in 2004 and spoke with one hundred of his colleagues and contemporaries, captures Shaw and his era with candor and sympathy, bringing the master to vivid life and restoring him to his rightful place in jazz history. For his centennial, an indispensable biography of Artie Shaw, the legendary big-band leader, virtuoso clarinetist, and renegade in music and romance.