Block 27 of Kwesi Mensah Wali Weeksville Oral History (Q26178)

Mensah Wali: With another group of friends – five of us at this point – we gave parties in the basement of one of the guys in the group; he played drums,RonWarwell,Jim Dowdy played bass, and we gotDanny Mixon on piano, and guys likeJoe Rigbee,Carlos Garnett. We’d have these parties in this basement and they’d play a set for an hour, then R&B and Latin for an hour, then they’d come back and pla...