"But his first love was jazz," says MacLure, editor of the magazine Anglos in the Wind. A little over three decades ago, he led the Frank Dubier Jazz Ensemble which was a 25-member band at one point. In those days with a big band, he once told a writer, they would always open performances with Take the A Train, the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. It was in during a stint in Delhi, playing for the Delhi Symphonic Orchestra, that he got to interact with Ellington and other American jazz icons, the story goes.