Al Haig

The pianist. Not the “I’m in control here” former General turned Secretary of State.

In early 1980, pianist Al Haig hired me to play duo with him five nights a week at a restaurant called One Fifth Avenue near Washington Square Park in New York City. I think the restaurant's owner was Gerard Schwartz, who owned three other restaurants in the city and was a medical doctor working at St. Vincent’s Hospital nearby on Seventh Avenue. For wh…