Happy Birthday, Huey

I got to jam with the 102 year-old musical legend, Heuy Long at the Italian Festival in Houston, Saturday.

What a thrill and privilege that was!

We did Gypsy, Fly Me To The Moon, Route 66, and Night Train. This man shared the band stand with Dizzy Gilespie, Charlie Parker, Sara Vaughn and Count Basey ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

He lives alone in an over-heated tiny government subsidized flat. I see TV cameras at grandma's 100th birthday and cheering when she blows out candles and drinks a glass of milk. Not one was there for living history on Saturday. Shame on our sad, anti-intellectual America; the pity of the world.

Mr. Long is not bitter, though. But he said he felt like a heal for stiffing his agent for the $150.00 minimum performance fee and we would have to slip him 50 bucks under the table.

What's so important that nobody notices such greatness as Huey's?