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"That boy is going places," said a man behind me in a dimly lit club in Northeast Washington, D. C., called Mr. Y's. That "boy" is William Fluker, an 18-year-old senior at Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts.
Seeming lost in his own musical world of jazz, his playing brought members in the audience repeatedly to their feet as he wiggled his fingers on the trumpet.
"Let the music get good to ya!" shouted the man behind me, and it looked as if it did. The nervousness William claims haunts him while performing was not sensed, as the audience sat spellbound.
Sitting in the living room of his mother's home in Northwest D. C. recently, William talked about his music.
"I really do get nervous, even though I try not to be," he said. "I guess it's because I don't really feel confident about playing; but everytime the audience responds,...