On a September evening at the Birchmere Music Hall in 2015, 30 of D.C.'s finest musicians gathered to celebrate their heroes and display the virtuosic, genre-blending music they proudly call their own. At center stage stood a Fender Telecaster, the signature instrument of the late Danny Gatton. As the undisputed master of this music, Gatton would blend jazz, blues, country, swing, rock, and bluegrass sometimes in the same solo.