Bob Haggart Hamilton College Interview Block 28 (Q14471)

Well, I've written a bass method book that's out of print, and has been for a long time, but Ray Brown studied out of my book, and when I met Ray Brown he was playing with Dizzy Gillespie's big band on 52nd street. And I think it was the first time Ray Brown had ever been to New York. I don't know were he's from originally, but he was a marvelous player at that time. He was about eighteen year ...