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This in-depth examination of the life and career of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw cuts between archival footage, | dG1fNUY1Tk9UTUZzcjA
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00:00One, two, three, four.
00:02And the next to the Broadcasting Company break the show, Arnie Shaw.
00:06In the Clarence Campus Orchestra.
00:09I think he was the number one band in the country.
00:12No other band was imitating him. No other band had the sound.
00:16And I fell in love with the band.
00:23Playing one-nighters, having the screaming jitterbugs,
00:26who after all did make him, there's no doubt about him there.
00:30But Arnie is far too intellectual.
00:32He's far too pragmatic a man.
00:35Far too serious a musician in those days.
00:37The press resented the fact that he was telling the people off.
00:40He said, I don't want to play for people that won't listen to me.
00:43One night I remember taking a walk through Central Park with a friend of mine.
00:47And I said to her, see all those lights up there in those buildings?
00:50And she said, yeah. And I said, well, behind every one of those lights there's a person.
00:54And someday all of those people are going to know my name.
00:57Yesterday, I went to another small town,
00:58who didn't even know the factory,
01:00who's coming in the back.
01:01Didn't have to know my name.
01:02I don't know the people of others with äru if somebody would work on.
01:04That has been just five seats.
01:05After all, if everyone of ours are sitting there,
01:07I decided to pick and see if I can impressive.
01:08I'm over to our dining room,
01:09in美國вер efficiency,
01:10I'm waking up to theción that I wrote.
01:11And that's not what myatie stopped then.
01:12I was wondering if BVN saw here on the table.
01:14Where is meine god Corps to be found?
01:16What a decentесте will always be found in the room?
01:17Pa, a decent room she left.
01:18You
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