Buddy DeFranco Smithsonian Interview Block 175 (Q3743)

Now, was it when you were in the Dorsey band, you and Charlie Shavers, didn't you kind of discover bebop around then? Didn't you hear Charlie Parker for the first time with Charlie Shavers? sometime, and he said. "I heard this guy playing saxophone up in Harlem. " And he said, I don't know what he's doing but it's unbelievable. It's fantastic stuff. He said, "I'm going to go up and listen to h ...