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The LA TIMES mentioned that Artie Shaw's house was listed for sale at 700K.

Given LA prices, it must be relatively modest/small (considering who he was and what he probably could have afforded).

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Well, these exceprts from the introduction to a 1999 interview help to answer questions about his house:

YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW IT, BUT ARTIE Shaw is alive and well and living in Southern California. He's been here for 23 years, writing books in a modest tract house at the far end of the San Fernando Valley.

Shaw lives alone now, in a house cluttered with art, books and, yes, music equipment.

Full interview and photo

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Well, these exceprts from the introduction to a 1999 interview help to answer questions about his house:

YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW IT, BUT ARTIE Shaw is alive and well and living in Southern California. He's been here for 23 years, writing books in a modest tract house at the far end of the San Fernando Valley.

Shaw lives alone now, in a house cluttered with art, books and, yes, music equipment.

Full interview and photo

I heard his house was in Newbury Park. (part of Thousand Oaks)

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Very interesting interview. Artie seemed to say nastier things about Goodman every time he was asked about him, which to me says something bothered him about Benny more than him being "dumb" Perhaps always being compared in some way to him.

Damn interviewer sure sounded dumb...

Shaw rose to prominence during the big-band era, but that style never really suited him. And whereas Benny Goodman's peaches-and-cream music is unfailingly polite, Shaw's is edgy, untamed, straining into the future. :wacko:

Oh, she also said Billie Holiday joined Shaw's band in 1936, but I don't think she did till 1938, right???

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Oh, she also said Billie Holiday joined Shaw's band in 1936, but I don't think she did till 1938, right???

Berigan, Billie Holiday joined the Artie Shaw band on March 10, 1938. She left the band on December 10, 1938.

Information from Ken Vail's invaluable book 'Lady Day's Diary'.

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