A young Alan Greenspan played sax and clarinet professionally in the 1940s with future jazz great Stan Getz — but quit after deciding he could never reach Getz’ level of skill. Instead, he pursued economics, eventually becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades.

A fan of Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn Monroe called up the Mocambo club in L.A. & promised to be in the front row every night if they’d book the jazz singer, which they did, and she was. “after that, I never had to play a small jazz club again,” Fitzgerald later lamented.

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