The Caro talk was basically a reward to the Library's 150 fellows their ranks include Garrison Keillor, Joyce Carol Oates and Howard Levi (an attorney friend who invited me) whose sponsorship helps make up the shortfall between the expense of producing the books and the decision to sell them for less than a commercial publisher would.

WSJ: The Historian's Stories

"A friend of mine gave me your album Love Comes and Goes, and I wanted to make sure you knew that you're in my road music, and you have to understand how important my road music is to me, " McRae told Parris when they first met.

NPR: Rebecca Parris at Marblehead Summer Jazz