Late last year, Jack and Lisa Nash, a Colorado couple, opted for the high-tech approach to avoid their new baby suffering from Fanconi anaemia, a rare inherited bone-marrow disease, which plagues their daughter.

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She helped coach pianists John Hicks and Mulgrew Miller, bassists Buster Williams and Dave Holland, and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Lewis Nash.

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