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Artie Shaw dead

THOUSAND OAKS (California): Artie Shaw (in the picture), clarinettist and bandleader whose recording of ``Begin the Beguine'' epitomised the Big Band era, died on Thursday at the age of 94, the manager of his orchestra said. Mr. Shaw had been ill for some time, Will Curtis said, but he did not know the specific cause of death. At his peak in the 1930s and '40s, Mr. Shaw pulled in a five-figure salary per week and ranked with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller as the bandleaders who made music swing. But he left the music world largely behind in the mid-'50s and spent much of the second half of his life devoted to writing and other pursuits. His band's recording of Cole Porter's ``Begin the Beguine'' was intended to be the ``B'' side of the record. Instead, it became a huge hit, topping the charts for six weeks in 1938 and making Mr. Shaw famous at age 28.

— AP

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