John Levy Smithsonian Interview Block 598 (Q15547)

Yeah, the parting of the ways with Stuff Smith came about exactly in a sense like it started, realizing that Smith was not a dependable person. Stuff Smith was kind of - you might say, kind of a nut, in a way. He was a great musician, a great player, but he was screwy. We fell out when he went to the union and collected money from the recording things we had done, which was - we had our checks ...