Count Basie University of Michigan Interview Block 18 (Q4942)

Well, I really liked music in my home. I'm from a town called Charlestown, South Carolina. Music to me, I first really heard it at an orphanage there called Jenkins Orphanage and they had musicians, young kids playing horns. I think they had about four or five bands and used to go around the corners and play. Whatever I was doing, I would stop and go follow them. They used to play on one corne ...