Only one figure in jazz history has played piano behind dozens of major jazz artists, recorded as a singer, owned a major jazz club, produced jazz albums, and started a festival that gave people of all ages daytime access to the greatest jazz musicians of the 1950s and beyond.
That person is George Wein, 82, founder of both Boston's Storyville jazz club …
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