Danny Barker Smithsonian Interview Block 409 (Q13975)

Like the way he played. That's right. Nobody . . . The musicians he had had weren't New Yorkers. In fact there's no New York, very few are New York musicians. They all come from somewhere. Most of them, a lot of them come from the West Indian islands. They change their name and they change their speech and they try to be American. So, I'm around, he say, "You think you can get me six cockroac ...