Last Thursday, May 5th, 90 year-old Fred Staton recalled his early years in Pittsburgh, starting as a singer and drummer, switching to tenor saxophone as a teen in the early thirties. School tales of times with Billy Strayhorn and the affect of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young on his generation of sax players delighted; his account of war-time work in factories, then living off of Mount Morris Park in Harlem in the 1950s, playing with and listening to the greats in the golden era of jazz, enthralled. The elder statesman of the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band also spoke about his work in the restaurant business as well as his role in the career of his famous younger sister, Dakota Staton. Several fellow band members related humorous anecdotes of life on the road, while founder/manager Dr. Albert Vollmer discussed how this 30+ year labor of love has been a vision come alive.