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American director Woody Allen attending a press conference for Café Society before the opening of the 69th Cannes film festival, 2016.
As a teenager, Woody Allen took up the clarinet, an instrument he played while developing a deep interest in jazz. Although he was a musician, his primary musical idol during that time was the saxophonist Sidney Bechet.1