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His playing, especially on phonograph records, was an important influence on later jazz clarinetists, including Benny Goodman.

Larry Shields inspired Dink Johnson to begin playing the clarinet, in a 1950 interview with Floyd Levin he stated: " I was actually a drummer, you know.

I had always wanted to play the clarinet since hearing Larry Shields with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.