Danny Polo

Danny Pollo (December 22, 1901 – July 11, 1949) known professionally as Danny Polo was an American jazz clarinetist.
Polo was born in Toluca, Illinois and moved to Clinton, Indiana, as an infant, where his father worked as a coal miner. His father was also a clarinetist, and Danny learned to play from a young age, working in marching bands from age eight. In his youth he and Claude Thornhill had a duo. In the 1920s Polo played... more