Bird just grinned. He'd never heard a guitar played like that! He saw T-Bone Walker, worked with Charlie Parker and uses a drawer-knob instead of a pick: Chicago jazz supremo George Freeman, 96, looks back over an epic career

He’s a bebop originator who’s played with everyone from Charlie Parker to Jimmy McGriff and who saw the popular music transform from jazz to swing and beyond. Now in his 90s, George Freeman has a new

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