Block 5 of Kwesi Mensah Wali Weeksville Oral History (Q26156)

Mensah Wali: My first experience with jazz inBrooklyn was at my house – my mother played the music, my sister played the music, one of my sisters was a good friend ofDinah Washington and she would take me to her house. Wynton Kelly lived in the neighborhood and came to the house, and I was fortunate enough to live around the corner from the clubContinental. It was literally in my backyard; dur...