Les Grosses Têtes: AH OUAIS ? - Pourquoi Woody Allen est un obsédé depuis 70 ans ?

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A woman, no no, with the jazz she has been much more faithful, the proof is that for more than 70 years, he has been playing clarinet every day, even when he is filming.

It is part of his non-negotiable requirements.

Oh yeah?

Yeah, even if the clarinet was not his first instrument, he first started with the saxophone after having had a 15-year coup de foudre by falling on a Sidney Bechette concert,

but aware that he would never be able to play like his idol, he changed his instrument and played on the clarinet, to which he owes his name by the way,

since his real boss is Allen Steward Konigsberg.

But when he started writing jokes for humorists, he decided to take a pseudo.

He kept Allen and chose Woody because it was the first name of his idol, the clarinetist of the 1940s, Woody Herman.

Oh yeah?

By the way, there is not only him in his family who has a name in reference to jazz, his children too.

His first son, with Mia Faro, he baptized Satchel, in double homage to a baseball player he loved, Satchel Page, and also, we come back to jazz, to Louis Samstrong whose nickname was Satchmo.

Then, with Suni, he adopted two daughters, Bechette Dumaine, in homage to Sidney Bechette, and Monzy Tio, in reference to Monzy Johnson, the drummer of Sidney Bechette,

and Lorenzo Tio, another famous clarinetist.

No, in the end Woody Allen really prefers jazz to cinema, the proof, in 1978,

while he drew his very first Oscar for his annual film, he, well, he was in New York,

he refused to move to not have to cancel the jazz concert he gave with his musicians friends in a New York club every Monday evening.

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