Dave Brubeck Smithsonian Interview Block 255 (Q7166)

Then Balboa Ballroom, maybe, where he really started getting an audience, which is a very strange thing, that he was almost - he was planning to break up, and a turnaround, because that audience in Denver really liked him, and then later on, in California. But there were always bands coming through. It wasn't an isolated place, by no means. The way I heard, or met, Duke Ellington for the first ...