After signing a new recording contract with RCA Victor  Artie Shaw chose
"Begin the Beguine" to be the first of six tunes he would record with his new
14 piece band at this, his first recording session with RCA. The session was
held at RCA’s "Studio 2" on East 24th Street in New York.

Artie Shaw (Arthur Jacob Arshawsky)
(May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004)

Shaw was also an actor and a author who wrote both fiction and non-
fiction. He remained a force in popular music and jazz before retiring
from music completely in 1954.

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)

LOS ANGELES (AP) A bright yellow, uniquely shaped guitar used by Prince
to perform such tunes as "Cream" and "Gett Off" is going up for auction.

Heritage Auctions is selling one of the late artist’s "yellow cloud" electric
guitars beginning June 24 with an opening bid of $30,000. The guitar was
one of several custom guitars Prince used in the 1980s and 1990s.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, (more commonly Leonardo da Vinci)
(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)   

Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and
architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic
Vitruvian Man. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. He
also devised such futuristic technology as tanks, concentrated solar power, and
adding machines, and spearheaded some vital breakthroughs in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

The Last Supper

Mona Lisa

Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000).