On September 8, nonagenarian Max “The Saxman” Lucas, who grew up and began playing the saxophone in Washington, DC in the 1920s, discussed playing with an incredible array of jazz titans: Louis Armstrong, Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald, Hot “Lips” Page, Buddy Johnson, Cootie Williams, Tiny Bradshaw (in Japan), Thelonious Monk (at the Yam Inn), Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. In more recent decades he performed with Latin groups led by Robert Vasquez and Carlos Barbario as well as the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington.