I just listened to an interview with jazz legend Gerald Wilson on NRP Saturday Edition. [Source - audio will be available in a couple of hours].

In it the now-93-year-old-musician describes how, after visiting the 1937 Chicago Worlds Fair, he begged his parents to let him go north for school and how he ended up in Detroit where he attended Cass Tech which he praised as, along with Julliard in Manhattan, being the best school for music. He graduated from Cass and, like many other alumni, when on to fame and greatness.

The host of the show, Scott Simon, who is an insufferable Chicago-phile, cut him off at that point but not before he got in that unscripted plug.

Just another faded memory as the the famed school falls to the wrecking ball.