He may be modest about his musical skills, but Allen, 78, has played the instrument since he was a teenager growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, when he got private lessons from Fats Waller's clarinetist, Gene Sedric. For several years, Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have held a Monday night residency at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, playing sold-out shows week after week.
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