A memory of grade school recess: On a snowy, icy day, a student started singing "Winter Wonderland" on the playground--in January. He sang it with such confidence that the rest of us nearby couldn't help but join in. You've never heard a group of kids singing about a bluebird going away and a new bird arriving to stay with such gusto after Christmas.
Years later, this student put down his saxophone and started improvising vocals during a high school jazz band rehearsal of "C Jam Blues."
"Different venue, different genre," I thought, "but the same confidence is there."
