Artie Shaw

He died from natural causes aged 94. Staind are currently recording a new album which will not include Fred Durst, tentatively titled Chapter V and planned for release on May 31, 2005. In 2004, he was presented with a lifetime achievement Grammy Award. Their appearance at Reading Festival during the tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure. Shaw himself would guest conduct from time to time, ending his self-imposed retirement. Staind embarked on a world-wide tour in 2003 to promote 14 Shades Of Grey. In 1981, he organised a new Artie Shaw Band, with clarinetist Dick Johnson as band leader and soloist. Despite the criticism of the video, it has done much to increase their popularity.

In his later years, Shaw lived and wrote in the Newbury Park section of Thousand Oaks, California. During one particular song, "Outside", Durst can be heard shouting out (above Aaron Lewis' bridge riff) "Biloxi! This is the real motherfucking deal, y'all! Feeling those lighters." The video shot at the event proved popular, and has received more airplay on some television stations than any of Staind's official videos. The committee was investigating a peace activist organization, the World Peace Congress, which it considered a Communist front. Aaron Lewis and Fred Durst performed together live, on one occasion doing a live acoustic set to the accompaniment of hundreds of waving cigarette lighters. In 1953, Shaw was brought up before the House Un-American Activites Committee for his liberal activities. Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the summer of 2000, which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break The Cycle. He had two children. Despite the row, Fred Durst was so impressed by Staind's live performance that night that he later set up their first record deal.

A self-proclaimed "very difficult man", Shaw was married eight times; it became a national joke to have been "married as many times as Artie Shaw." Among his wives were Jane Cairns, Margaret Allen, Betty Kern (daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern), author Kathleen Winsor, and actresses Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Doris Dowling and Evelyn Keyes. Staind made their first breakthrough after first having a row with Fred Durst before playing in support of Limp Bizkit in October 1997. For the Marx Brothers' movie, The Big Store Shaw co-wrote the song, "If It's You." He also had a significant role in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus. Their sophomore album, Dysfunction (release on Elektra Records), was their breakthrough. He wrote The Trouble With Cinderella and was working on The Education of Albie Snow when he died. They self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996. He focused on writing, concentrating on semi-biographical fiction. Staind is a four-piece rock/heavy metal group from Springfield, Massachusetts.

In 1954, Shaw stopped playing the clarinet, citing his own perfectionism, which, he later said, would have killed him. Chapter V (due for release on May 31, 2005). He began psychoanalysis and began to pursue a writing career. 14 Shades Of Grey (May 20, 2003). He credited his time in the navy as a period of renewed introspection. Break The Cycle (May 2001). Throughout his musical career, Shaw would take sabbaticals where he would quit the business. Dysfunction (April 1999).

He received a medical discharge. Tormented (November 1996). He spent approximately 18 months playing for navy personnel, sometimes as many as four shows a day. Jon Wysocki - Drums. Navy (along with his entire band) and served with them in the Pacific theater (similar to Glenn Miller's wartime band in Europe). Johnny "Old School" April - Bass and Background Vocals. During WWII he enlisted in the U.S. Mike Mushok - Guitars.

At the height of his popularity, Shaw reportedly earned US$30,000 per week, a very large amount during the Great Depression. Aaron Lewis - Vocals/Acoustic Guitar. His band became enormously successful and his playing, dismissed at first, eventually rivaled that of Benny Goodman: Longtime Duke Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard--himself a talented musician--cited Shaw as his favorite clarinet player. He hired Billie Holiday as his band's vocalist, becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer. His piece "Interlude in B-flat" was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

Shaw was know for being an innovator in the big band idiom, at the time using unusual instrumentation. During the Swing Era, his big band was very popular with hits like "Begin the Beguine", "Lady Be Good", and "Frenesi". He returned to New York and became a session musician. He was born in New York City, United States, and began learning the saxophone when he was 15 and, by age 16, had begun to tour with a band.

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer. Download sample of "Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw, a surprise hit that turned the clarinetist into a swing star.