Concerto for Clarinet (Shaw)

{{Short description|Composition by Artie Shaw}}

Concerto for Clarinet is a composition for clarinet and jazz orchestra by Artie Shaw. The piece ends with a "legendary" altissimo C.{{cite book|page=311|author=Hoeprich, Eric|title=The Clarinet|year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press}} The piece is a "pastiche thrown together out of some boogie-woogie blues, clarinet-over-tomtom interludes, a commonplace riff build-up towards the end, all encased in opening and closing virtuoso cadenzas for the leader's clarinet".

Shaw and his orchestra performed the piece in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus (1940), in which Shaw played himself.{{cite book|page=705|volume=2|title=The History of Jazz|author=Schuller, Gunther|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press}}

Harry James recorded a version in 1955 on his album Jazz Session (Columbia CL 669).