Artie Shaw ~ Similar Artists

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Benny Goodman - 100% match to Artie Shaw

Benjamin David Goodman, 30 May 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 20 June 1986, New York City, New York, USA. Born into a large, impoverished family of immigrants, Goodman experienced hard times while growing up. Encouraged by his father to learn a musical instrument, Goodman and... Read more

Glenn Miller - 94% match to Artie Shaw

1 March 1905, Clarinda, Iowa, USA, d. 15 December 1944. Miller was the first artist to be credited with a million-selling disc (for "Chattanooga Choo Choo"), and was the toast of North American popular music during World War II for his uniformed orchestra's fusion of sober... Read more

The Andrews Sisters - 75% match to Artie Shaw

Female vocal group comprising sisters LaVerne (6 July 1911, Mound, nr. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, d. 8 May 1967, Brentwood, California, USA), Maxene (b. 3 January 1916, Mound, nr. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, d. 21 October 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and Patty Andrews... Read more

Tommy Dorsey - 71% match to Artie Shaw

Harry James - 67% match to Artie Shaw

15 March 1916, Albany, Georgia, USA, d. 5 July 1983, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Harry James' father played trumpet in the band of a touring circus, and at first Harry played the drums, but then he, too, took up the trumpet and at the age of nine was also playing in the circus band.... Read more

Charlie Barnet - 60% match to Artie Shaw

Cab Calloway - 58% match to Artie Shaw

Cabell Calloway, 25 December 1907, Rochester, New York, USA, d. 18 November 1994, Cokesbury Village, Hockessin, Delaware, USA. Involved in showbusiness from an early age, vocalist Calloway was an occasional drummer and MC, working mostly in Baltimore, where he was raised, and... Read more

Jimmie Lunceford - 58% match to Artie Shaw

James Melvin Lunceford, 6 June 1902, Fulton, Mississippi, USA, d. 12 July 1947, Seaside, Oregon, USA. At school in Denver, Colorado, Lunceford studied under Wilberforce Whiteman, father of Paul Whiteman. He later read for a degree in music at Fisk University, where his studies... Read more

Woody Herman - 58% match to Artie Shaw

Woodrow Charles Herman, 16 May 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, d. 29 October 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA. A child prodigy, Herman sang and tap-danced in local clubs before touring as a singer in vaudeville. To improve his act he took up the saxophone and later the... Read more

Glenn Miller Orchestra - 53% match to Artie Shaw