Block 7 of Ahmed Abdullah Weeksville Oral History (Q26988)

Ahmed Abdullah: Not really, I don’t think I had an awareness per se of jazz in Brooklyn. But I shouldn’t say that because I was studying with Cal Massey and he lived in Brooklyn on Brooklyn Avenue, going way back in mymemory. Certainly he was very much involved in the [jazz] history of Brooklyn. Actually I introduced him to the daycare center [New Directions Day Care Center] I was working at ...