From 1926 to 1929, he worked in Cleveland and established a reputation as music director for an orchestra led by Austin Wylie, a violinist. He then toured as a tenor saxophonist with Irving Aaronson's band and while he was in Chicago he played in jam sessions with several local musicians. At the same time, he discovered the music of Claude Debussy and

Jazz is a kind of music that has often been called the only art form to originate in the United States. Some Instruments used in Jazz were piano, guitar,bass, drums/percussion, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone. The history of jazz began in the late 1800's. During the 1800s music was a big part of the life of plantation slaves. Plantation songs and spirituals were a part of everyday life. They helped to celebrate, to mourn, to entertain, to worship, and to accompany the hard work. The music grew from a combination of influences, including black American music, African rhythms, American band traditions and instruments, and European harmonies and forms. Jazz was actually appreciated as an important art form in Europe before it gained recognition in the United States.

Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Shaw quit the music business again to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After finishing boot training, he was asked to form a service band which won the national Esquire poll. He spent the next year taking his music into the Pacific war zones. On returning to the U.S. he was given a medical discharge from the Navy. He continued to lead big bands in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but his last recorded work was with another small group also called the Gramercy Five in 1954. Later on in the year Artie Shaw stopped playing the clarinet. In 1955 he left the United States and built a house on a mountain on the coast of Northeast Spain, where he lived for five years. On his return to America in 1960 he stayed in a small town named Lakeville, in northwestern Connecticut, where he continued his writing, and in 1964 finished a second book, consisting of three novellas, entitled I Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead! In 1973, he moved back to California. Since then Artie Shaw has had nothing really to do with music or show business. He sometimes still gives interviews on television, radio, newspapers and lectures all over the United States. He still conducts seminars on literature, art, and the evolution of what is now known as the Big Band Era. He has given lectures at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the California State University at North ridge, and Memphis State University. He has received Honorary Doctorates at California Lutheran University and the University of Arizona. “Shaw is known by many as the finest and most introduced of all jazz clarinetists and one of the most adventurous and accomplished figures in American music.”

As a young man he studied classical clarinet, but after hearing Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, he wanted to play jazz. Later he mentions Willie Smith and Chick Webb as inspirations towards his music. Later that year, Shaw traveled with Aaronson to New York, where he played in Harlem jam sessions and came under the influence and education of Willie "the Lion" Smith. From 1931 to 1935, he worked as an i

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