When George Wein's Storyville opened in Boston in 1950, it attracted mostly professors from local colleges. In the fall of 1953, one of those professors brought socialite Elaine Lorillard into the jazz club and introduced her to George. Over drinks, Lorillard told George that months earlier she and her husband had attracted the New York Philharmonic to …
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