Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 196 (Q18149)

I would say 50. I would say 50, 51. I would think 51. But there was an Armed Forces Radio Service, they had a jazz hour, and I heard this "Body and Soul" and its beautifully played, and I said, "Wow, who could that be? " and that was Bud Powell. Since then, I tried to listen to him, and pretty much the same time there was a jazz coffee shop, you know. Those days, records were costing--I thin ...