Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a look at some facts. Shaw claims that he is leaving the business, despite the fact that his income would have been some six-figured amount. Yet only a few months ago, he signed recording and booking contracts that were to run for two years. When his drummer, Buddy Rich, left to join Tommy Dorsey several weeks ago, Shaw, according to several of the men in his band, offered Rich a large increase in salary, and when Rich refused to stay, told him he could return whenever he wanted to. As far as ascertainable, his recording company, booking agency...
About eight weeks ago, this column reported that Artic Shaw was going to be forced out of the music business. Last week Shaw apparently refuted this story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with...
Right after his departure, his band held a meeting, formed a cooperative, elected vocalist Tony Pastor president, and decided to call themselves "Tony Pastor with Art Shaw's orchestra...
Just before his rather dramatic exit, Shaw chose to rationalize his recent actions and to explain why he was heroically leaving now in an article about the business in general in the Saturday Evening Post...
...nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come in for their share of panning. I don't think that there is much doubt that Shaw is absolutely right in what he says about all of this. His only trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes on to say that it is these things that are making him leave the business. He says that...