Backgrounder: Jimmy Forrest's 'Forrest Fire'

In the years leading up to World War II, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest got his start in bands led by Jay McShann and Andy Kirk. After the war, he was with Duke Ellington and then was on his own. His big claim to fame was co-writing and first recording Night Train, a song adapted from Duke Ellington's Happy Go Lucky Local. Night Train became a jazz and…