I love stories of hope, stories of normal people getting extraordinary chances. Here’s a great one that I read this morning from one of my favorite jazz journalists, Ted Gioia. A group of local jazz musicians DC had a chance to play with Lester Young, one of the all time greats of tenor sax, during a week in December 1957. Luckily the pianist recorded it so we can all share in theire joy. Here’s the story: tedgioia.substack.com/p/my-favo…

Interested in listening to the music that came out of their week together in Washington? You can listed to all five volumes on this playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/…

You never know when your chance to be part of something great will happen!