Block 25 of Ahmed Abdullah Weeksville Oral History (Q27006)

Ahmed Abdullah: They didn’t come to New York until the mid-1970s, in fact around the “Wildflower” series [of recordings] in 1976, that was really the initial time whenmany of them came to New York, but some of them didn’t stay. People like Steve McCall and a few other people had been here, but there was a real influx of the AACM [Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)] mu...