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Definition of Artie shaw
1. Noun. United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004).
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Literary usage of Artie shaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress by Rebecca D. Clear (1994)
"Symphony of Swing (1939), a Vitaphone musical short with artie shaw and his ...
SEE ALSO artie shaw and his Orchestra in Symphony of Swing; artie shaw's ..."
2. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"artie shaw appeared for Lorillard's Old Gold cigarettes, and Tommy Dorsey appeared
for Brown & Williamson's Kool and Raleigh brands (Lewine 1970). ..."
3. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"... band leader artie shaw told an investigating committee he had been a "dupe"
of the Communists during the 1930s; the State Department was removing from ..."