Roy Haynes Smithsonian Interview Block 132 (Q5805)

Korean War. I still had my 4-F from Boston. I told them, I said, "You don't want - you don't really like black people anyway. What you want with me? " I got rejected then. Because the guys were planning - I had just bought that new - that car. 1950. I think that was the Korean War. I was in Birdland playing with Charlie Parker. There were a couple drummers planning on what they would do if Roy ...