Dave Brubeck Smithsonian Interview Block 365 (Q7276)

Let me ask just one more question, and then we'll wrap up today. At the time you began working with the octet and the trio, San Francisco was seen more as a dixieland type of town, Lu Watters and later Turk Murphy and all that. Were there other people doing really modern, adventurous jazz in San Francisco that influenced you, or were you really - how did you relate to the rest of the jazz scen ...