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Sol Yaged (December 8, 1922 in New York City, New York. – May 16, 2019) was an American jazz clarinetist who was strongly influenced by Benny Goodman.

Yaged was strongly influenced by Benny Goodman's playing style. He began playing clarinet at the age of 12 after hearing Goodman's broadcasts in 1935. He studied under a clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, but turned down a classical career to play jazz in New York nightclubs.

Yaged has played clarinet continuously, with such musicians as Phil Napoleon, Coleman Hawkins, Henry Red Allen, and Jack Teagarden. In 1956, he served as a consultant on Benny Goodman's musical style for The Benny Goodman Story. Beginning in the 1960s, he began working primarily as an ensemble leader, working in New York City.

In the 1990s he worked in Felix Endico's swing band.
From 1996-97, he worked under the musical direction of bandleader Jack Vartan at the Stony Hill Inn, Bergen County, New Jersey with the Jack Vartan 14 Piece Swing Big Band.

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Various
Jazz Instruments
2013, Box, Har + 8xCD, Comp, EarBooks, Edel Germany GmbH,
Coleman Hawkins & Henry "Red" Allen
Reunion In Hi-Fi (The Complete Classic Sessions)
2009, 2xCD, Comp, Lone Hill Jazz, ,
Swing
Charlie Shavers
Horn O' Plenty
2005, CD, Comp, Lone Hill Jazz
Various
P Cole Porter
2004, 2xCD, Comp, Disconforme SL, ,
Bop/Big Band/Cool Jazz
Coleman Hawkins, Red Allen*, Roy Eldridge
The Tenor For All Seasons
1997, 2xCD, Comp, Jazz Classics
Doug Duke & Company*
"The Music Room"
1994, 2xCD, Album, Valley Vue Records, ,
Bop/Swing
Jack Teagarden
Accent On Trombone
1991, CD, Album, RE, Fresh Sound Records, Urania Records (3)
Various
Remember New Orleans
1988
The Zoot Sims Al Cohn Septet / Charlie Shavers, Sam "The Man" Taylor*, Urbie Green
Happy Over Hoagy / We Dig Cole!
1988, CD, ,
Cool Jazz/Swing
Coleman Hawkins & Red Allen*
Volume One "Warhorses"
1987, LP, Album, Jass Records
Henry "Red" Allen
Henry Red Allen And His Friends 1932-56
1987, LP, Album, Meritt Record Society
Charlie Shavers, Sam 'The Man' Taylor*, Urbie Green
We Dig Cole!
1987
Henry Red Allen* And Coleman Hawkins
Stormy Weather
1987,
Jack Bari Presents Sol Yaged And His Quartet
One More Time - Live At The Gaslight Club
1967, LP, Album, Lane Records
Jack Bari Presents Sol Yaged And His Trio
"Live" At The Gaslight Club
1966, Vinyl, ,
Dixieland
Henry Jerome And His Orchestra
Strings In Dixieland
1962, ,
Dixieland
The Big Three
Jazz From Then Till Now
1960
Jack Teagarden
Accent On Trombone
1955
Jack Teagarden
Meet The New Jack Teagarden Volume I
1954, 10", Album, Urania Records (3)
Jack Teagarden
The New Jack Teagarden Plays And Sings Volume II
1954, 10", Urania Records (3)
Jack Bari Presents Sol Yaged And His Quartet
At The Gaslight Club
LP, Album, Lane Records,
Various
Jazz
LP, Comp, Mono, ACA (4)
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
1998
Various
The Mercury Records Jazz Story
1995,
Air Force Reserve*
Soundflights Into Jazz Volume 9
1959, LP, Not On Label,