Artie Shaw Three Chords for Beauty's Sake

Hardcover
430 pgs.
W.W. Norton & Company, Publisher
Illustrated

For Artie Shaw's centennial year, an essential biography of the legendary big-band leader, virtuoso clarinetist, and renegade in music and romance. Acclaimed biographer Tom Nolan brings this difficult and brilliant artist to life, driven by fourteen years of interviews with Shaw, as well as conversations with more than a hundred of his contemporaries, for a candid and sympathetic portrait of the artist and his era and restores Shaw to his rightful place in jazz history.