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TRUST BUT VERIFY

I got queasy about my assertion that I had heard Maynard Ferguson play at the Boston Arts Festival.

It would have been the summer of 1956 or 57.

Sure enough, Ferguson had started his own band by 1957 and was a star with Stan Kenton (his childhood dream) in 1950.

He would have been 22.

A prodigy.

I have thought a lot about him. I am surprised at how some people get under your skin like this.

A puzzle.

It has to have a spiritual component.