John Levy Smithsonian Interview Block 564 (Q15513)

I think it was $100. I think something like that. It was very low compared to what I was making. And there was no negotiations. I said, "This is what I'm making. Can he come up to that? " And Jones, he said, "Duke Ellington's not going to pay that kind of money to you as a sideman. He don't pay that money to a sideman. " I said, "Everybody in the band is a sideman. What are you talking about ...