Billy Taylor Hamilton College Interview Block 45 (Q10792)

Count Basie was one of the most genuinely modest people that I think I've ever met. I tried as a radio announcer, on television shows, tried to interview him for many years and we were good friends. He would always talk to me, but he would always talk about the guys in the band. And I once asked him how he'd like to be remembered and he said "as a guy in the band. " But I did, I was fortunate ...