Even if we didn’t suspect that Woody Allen has been playing the clarinet with his band for almost 40 years now, we certainly understood something about his passion for jazz. The soundtracks of his films are flooded with famous jazz compositions, – from Glenn Miller to Duke Ellington and Al Johnson – even if we have to look back to his directions from the 70s, 80s and 90s where jazz is the voice of the ‘Gudianalen’ neurosis.

Fortunately, his performances with the New Orleans Jazz Band – with which he has swept the prestigious jazz bars of New York and with which he has already visited our country in 2005 and 2007 (at the Concert Hall and Badminton, respectively) – are organized at regular intervals. His last major U.S. exit was in 2017 when London’s Royal Albert Hall filled to capacity to hear a clarinetist who isn’t famous as such – instead introducing himself publicly as an underrated musician. However, he has the privilege of reaping laurels in his “morning” job in Hollywood.

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