Block 5 of Larry Ridley and Harold Mabern Weeksville Oral History (Q23911)

Larry Ridley: I came to New York with a gig; I joined Slide Hampton Octet in Pittsburgh and then we came into New York. I ended up working with Slide [Hampton] at different places, like the Half Note and many other different clubs in New York. It was during that time playing at Birdland that Philly Joe Jones took me under his wing and I started doing a lot of things with him, then I ended...