During my business trip I went to the conference during the

During my business trip I went to the conference during the day and hung out with Nelson in the nights. He took me to the Village Vanguard (google it) and then we took the subway up into Harlem and walked about 10 blocks cross town to a club where Clark Terry was playing. Clark recognized Nelson and I got to meet him.

Nelson played with several big bands (Glenn Miller, Woody Herman and others) and then finally became a studio cat in Los Angeles.

Time passes…

In the early 80s Britany decided to follow her father and play trumpet in the school band. We got her a student grade trumpet.

In about 84 Kath and I decided to get her a better trumpet. I had a business trip to Los Angeles so I met up with Nelson again. I wanted him to help me buy her a good trumpet. After some wrangling he gave me a silver Yahama and I forced some money on him. Britany loved the trumpet and played it thru her time in high school.