Willis Conover

“Despite a career that lasted for more than four decades, Conover was completely anonymous in the United States.”

“When Conover visited Poland in 1959, he was met at the airport by a crowd of admirers, including young women with garlands of flowers, and a cortege of bicycles and motorbikes that followed him all t…”

“On a trip to Russia in 1982, he was kissed on the hand by a young Muscovite who declared: “If there is a god of jazz, it is you.””