Goodbye, Miss Butterfly

With that, neither of them said anything for a fewmoments and both realized the song had ended.Looking at each other they imagined an audience applaudingto that musical exchange. Benny Goodman and LionelHampton would have been jealous had they been there inthe audience. They were perhaps busy that morning playingsomewhere or maybe even rehearsing for their groundbreakingconcert in Carnegie Hall that would take place a fewweeks later in January. It was the first time a jazz ensemblehad been allowed to perform at Carnegie. Colin and Piperdidnt know it, but theres had just been an opening act forthemselves, music, and jazz. It would be a good year forimprovisation, that year 1938, a