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Artie Shaw: Time Is All We’ve Got Brigitte Berman’s Oscar-winning documentary about the charismatic clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw is an intoxicating deep dive. A self-proclaimed “very difficult man,” Shaw wanted to be a writer, was married eight times, and often tried to circumnavigate the inanities of his profession. Berman's doc captures the self-taught virtuoso and polymath in all his genius and complexity with an all-star roster of interviewees, including jazz luminaries Mel Tormé and Buddy Rich.

There's worldclass tango, there's lambs, there's a comic expo, there's music and music documentaries. The week of April 22-28 is jam-packed with cultural events in the Hudson Valley.

TORONTO—Some important film releases about music celebrities premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and they all have a connection to progressive struggle.

“Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got,” a documentary, was embroiled in lawsuits for years. It will be shown at the Film Forum this weekend.

The documentarian Brigitte Berman has made two spectacular pictures about American jazz pioneers. The first, “Bix: ‘Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet’”…