Editing Larry Shields (section)

==Influence==
[[File:Larry Shields 1916.jpg|thumb|Shields in 1916]]
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."<ref name="jazzconnection"/>

He co-wrote the ODJB classics "[[Clarinet Marmalade]]" with Henry Ragas and "[[At the Jazz Band Ball]]", "Ostrich Walk", and "Fidgety Feet" with Nick LaRocca. These compositions became jazz classics and standards that were re-recorded by later jazz bands.