Travis Bottoms
Even at seven years of age, I was into Hodges. It was the sound -- an often melancholy one -- coming from his saxophone that did it for me. For that reason, I could spot Hodges whenever I heard him without being told who was on sax. If I remember rightly, some time later pop singer Jo Stafford did a reverse crossover with Hodges behind her in the same "Daydream"