"A stirring moment in jazz history to echo in Turkish Embassy
By J. Freedom du Lac
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2011; 6:08 PM
The ghosts are jamming again.
They're playing that hot jazz in the Turkish Embassy's old Sheridan Circle mansion, just as they did in the 1930s and '40s, when the ambassador's boys, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, were always inviting their favorite musicians over to hang and blow and thump. The informal, integrated gatherings achieved near-mythic status - 'Washington's most famous private jam sessions,' jazz journalist Bill Gottlieb called them in The Washington Post in 1943 - and then they evaporated into history. "
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