Danny Barker Smithsonian Interview Block 417 (Q13983)

In Harlem. It's a club on 133rd Street. Later it became Dickie Wells's nightclub. It was on a basement on the ground floor with a club called the . . . a funny name. The Fun Box? No. The Fun Box is near . . . The Mad House, on the first floor. The Mad House. Downstairs was the Nest Club. I played in there. You go to work at ten o'clock at night and you come out ten o'clock in the morning, beca ...