Claim: 64-year-old Bruce Forman learned how to play piano and guitar when he was younger, and he got his start in the jazz scene after moving with his family to San Francisco.
Evidence: Forman took piano lessons at an early age before picking up the guitar at age thirteen. In 1971, his family moved to San Francisco, where he led his own groups in the area and performed with local jazz musicians, such as Eddie Duran, Vince Lateano, and Eddie Marshall, and with nationally known musicians, such as Ray Brown, George Cables, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, and Woody Shaw. Bruce Forman (born 1956) is an American jazz guitarist.