This is a nice article by Rick Runion at The Ledger about 82-year-old guitarist Ed Vitale.
Vitale served in WWII, used his GI Bill to study at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Modern Music and went on to play with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.

Born in Lodi, N.J., in 1925, Vitale credits his music-loving parents [...]