The story the earthquake covered up

On Tuesday afternoon sometime before 1 p.m., Daniel Niemann set up shop at the corner of 15th and K streets Northwest and began serenading passersby on his saxophone with the sultry tunes of Duke Ellington and other jazz greats.

What’s so unusual about that, you say? Well, for starters, he’s 11 years old. And he’s been playing the sax for just nine months but sounds as if he’s been playing it for years.