Block 63 of Jitu Weusi Weeksville Oral History (Q25905)

Jitu Weusi: I would think so, yes. Everybody that played [the East] got paid, nobody played for free. But they never charged us what they might have charged a Birdland, or the Vanguard… What we served was very good food, everybody talked about the food at The East; guys couldn’t wait until they had finished their set to send [their orders] down to the kitchen. We had chicken dinners, fish din...