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Biography
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Alberto Socarras
Real name: Alberto Socarrás Estacio
Effective period / Period of releases: 1957
Cuban-American flautist, clarinetist and saxophonist, born 19 September 1908 in Manzanillo, Cuba, died in New York, 26 August 1987.Studied flute with his mother in Cuba and at Timothy Music Conservatory in New York, where he had moved at age 18. Introduced the flute to jazz in his recordings with Clarence Williams, to whom he was introduced by Joe Jordan.