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.

“At one point I saw Coltrane break out a bagpipe (another demon in the forest) and blow into it, but damned if I heard a note of what he played.” – A.B. Spellman, 1965 Downbeat Magazine review of a NYC Village Gate concert

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