John Levy Smithsonian Interview Block 578 (Q15527)

I wasn't a great soloist. I wasn't a great bass player in my estimation. I was better than a lot of them that were - that was there on 52nd Street when I got there, who had big names, and I couldn't figure out why. I'm not going to name them for the world, but I was very disappointed, because I thought, hey, to work on 52nd Street, you had to really be something else, but these guys were popul ...