Roy Haynes Smithsonian Interview Block 337 (Q6010)

Very good question. My uncle had a church that we would go to sometime, my mother's brother, Pentecost. He had a bass drum in there. You couldn't keep me out of that church. But he used to want to play the bass drum. After he found out I could play it, it wasn't too cool, because he wanted to play the bass drum. So I played it as much as I could. Then my mother had some cymbals. You'd play the ...