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An Unlikely Encounter, Friendship With Jazz Great Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is a jazz trumpeter and the music director of jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. His performances have won him devoted fans around the world. After one of those performances, he met a boy and his mother, and they began an emotional journey no one expected — a journey that reunited them, years later, here in San Antonio.

Jack Morgan can be reached at jack@tpr.org and on Twitter at @JackMorganii