Block 15 of Kwesi Mensah Wali Weeksville Oral History (Q26166)

MensahWali: Themusic was the social music of the time. As a teenager I went to dances with groups calledThe Stablemates, and they played jazz.Horace Silver,Cal Tjader,Kenny Dorham,Max Roach… they played dances that I went to as a teenager, so [jazz] was a social music. It was on the radio all the time, in the summertime you’d walk down the street and hear jazz coming out of the windows. There ...