VHQ(VS) Artie Shaw - Summertime

"Mr. Shaw sold more than 100 million records "

"On first meeting Artie Shaw,young Wynton Marsalis remarked, "This man's got some history.""

"As Artie Shaw aged into his nineties, he developed a crusty humor, as evidenced by an epitaph for himself he wrote for Who's Who in America at the request of the editors: "He did the best he could with the material at hand." However, at a lecture to music students at the University of Southern California, when someone mentioned having read it, Shaw said, "Yeah, but I've been thinking it over and I've decided it ought to be shorter, to make it more elegant." And after a brief pause, "I've cut it down to two words;" "Go away.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37911-2004Dec30.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw
http://www.swingmusic.net/Shaw_Artie.html

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