Block 27 of James Spaulding Weeksville Oral History (Q24812)

James Spaulding: Yeah, a place of cultural enrichment for me, and everybody else that went there, That's what really made me aware. Randy Weston was one of my first teachers; when I first came to Brooklyn I worked with his band and he would always talk about Africa and African traditional music; he was always teaching. At the same time I was working with Freddie Hubbard's band and Freddie [...