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After four years of retirement and reflection, Clarinetist Artie Shaw was back in the music business last week, at 43. He mounted the bandstand at Manhattan's jazz-bent Embers, looked unsmilingly over the jabbering crowd and spoke into the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to remind you that it's almost axiomatic that music sounds better against silence. Not dead silence-just enough so that we can hear ourselves play." It might have been the old Artie Shaw, the one who called jitterbugs "morons" back...
...Chicago, the traveling Bostonians began to think that perhaps the heathen west of the mountains were more eager for salvation than the faithful at home. "They just seem to explode with the music, here in the West," said a percussionist after an overflow concert in Provo. Said a clarinetist, thinking of the many times that Southern and Western audiences had given the Bostonians standing ovations: "Back home, they take us so much more for granted...
...first star, the committee presented Artie Shaw, the widely read, widely wed (seven times) clarinetist and bandleader. Shaw flew in from a one-night stand in Little Rock, Ark., for a two-hour stand before the committee. The committee's subpoena, blurbed Shaw, "was like a breath of fresh air," because he had plenty to clear...
...Waited a Little Too Long (Trudy Richards and Artie Shaw; Decca). A high-pressure blues song, a vocal in Ella Fitzgerald style, and a big, swinging band. But if Clarinetist Shaw is aboard at all, he is playing too softly to be heard...
Cartoonist Medley went to work on the lyrics. Joe ("Leadfoot") Darensbourg, a clarinetist with Kid Ory and His "Flat Out" Five, turned out a gutbucket background. Sample lyric...