Artie Shaw's Class in Swing

The popular Artie Shaw, band maestro and one of the leading exponents of the increasingly popular school of swing music, provides the jive fans with everything they are looking for in this short. Professor Shaw breaks his band down and shows how it is put together. He takes the audience through the intricate fundamental phases of harmonizing and vocalizing, adding each piece to his band in the order of its importance in the general scheme. Shaw also gives an interesting demonstration of treatment of music to make it "swing." Band's numbers include one by Shaw's.