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Sol Yaged: Clarinet Swing

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Marc Myers
Oct 04, 2018
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In 1955, clarinetist Sol Yaged was playing at New York's Metropole Cafe at Seventh Avenue and 48th Street. In 1960 he was at Nick's on Seventh Avenue South and 10th Street. In the early 1970s, Yaged led a quartet in New York with pianist Marty Napoleon at Jimmy Weston's on 54th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. And in the 1980s, he was routinel…

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