Mary Lou Williams Rutgers Interview Block 478 (Q12666)

I didn't do a heck of a lot but I did enough to get the name on. He'd always start things like, we set Benny Goodman things. We were sitting in the car and he started whistling a tune. I said, "Gee, that would be good. I'm going upstairs and write it," you know. He always flushed me with ideas. There was never a lull; there was always something new happening. The first sound that Miles Davis ...