The Mentor Who Changed Everything
Remembering Billy Foster, the man who introduced me to jazz—and taught me how to live.
I have written about mentors before, and today I find myself returning to the subject.
Mentors can shape the course of a life. Sometimes they help us discover talents we didn’t know we possessed. Sometimes they open doors we didn’t even know existed. Their influence can be profound—so profound, in fact, that it can alter the entire direction of a career …


