Huey Long

Huey Long's surname is tailor-made to describe all manner of phenomena, but in the case of this jazz instrumentalist it sums up the most remarkable aspect of his career. In 2004, at the age of 100, he was still manning a black history exhibit in Houston at an antique cooperative, selling photos, tapes, and his own guitar course. R&B listeners will have heard Long on guitar with the Ink Spots; bebop hounds will have sniffed out his presence on sizzling Fats Navarro platters, doing innovative things with bebop guitar. His involvement in jazz shows him to be the master of a varie...