Roswell Rudd Hamilton College Interview Block 33 (Q14760)

I would have to say that from my own emotional understanding that the swing music say of Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins and that kind of thing would have been sort of like the cutting edge for me, even though Bird and Thelonious Monk and so forth were already out there changing things. When I heard Charlie Parker with the Jazz at the Philharmonic, you see there wasn't too many, it was very hard ...