{"id":15070,"date":"2024-01-04T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/artie-shaw-time-is-all-youve-got-review-a-lens-on-a-jazz-luminary\/04\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:32:19","slug":"artie-shaw-time-is-all-youve-got-review-a-lens-on-a-jazz-luminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/artie-shaw-time-is-all-youve-got-review-a-lens-on-a-jazz-luminary\/04\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Artie Shaw: Time Is All You\u2019ve Got\u2019 Review: A Lens on a Jazz Luminary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The documentarian Brigitte Berman has made two spectacular pictures about American jazz pioneers. The first, \u201cBix: \u2018Ain\u2019t None of Them Play Like Him Yet\u2019\u201d<\/a> (1981), chronicled the life of the brilliant and tragically short-lived cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke. It screened in a restoration at Film Forum a couple of years back. Now, her follow-up to that movie, \u201cArtie Shaw: Time Is All You\u2019ve Got\u201d (1985), is similarly restored and booked at Film Forum.<\/p>\n

Shaw<\/a>, the clarinetist and bandleader, was a devotee of Beiderbecke, and is interviewed in Berman\u2019s Beiderbecke film. When Shaw walked away from music for a first time, early in what would be a lengthy but nevertheless self-truncated jazz career, he tried to write a novel about Bix. He couldn\u2019t complete it, he says here, because the story had \u201cdepth and connotation that I wasn\u2019t philosophically or mentally prepared to cope with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaw was not only a self-taught virtuoso but also often the smartest guy in any room he was in. When he came back to the bandstand, his recording of Cole Porter\u2019s \u201cBegin the Beguine\u201d was a smash hit of the swing era. An unselfconscious civil rights pioneer, he hired the Black singer Billie Holiday to sing with him at a time when that just wasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n

Charming as well as erudite, he married eight times, to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner among others. The marriages didn\u2019t last because of his cantankerousness. The fame he avidly sought in his early years \u2014 \u201clike any other American kid, I wanted more of everything,\u201d he notes \u2014 eventually struck him as inane and repellent. An all-star roster of interviewees, including the luminaries Mel Torm\u00e9 and Buddy Rich, contributes to an unfailingly entertaining saga. The movie on its first release did so well \u2014 it won an Oscar \u2014 that it prompted the ever-unsatisfied Shaw to sue for a bigger share of the picture\u2019s profits.<\/p>\n

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You\u2019ve Got<\/strong>
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 54 minutes. In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n