A Drop of Patience by William Melvin Kelley

Author:William Melvin Kelley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Part Four

INTERVIEW…

What’s all this mess about me coming to New York and inventing modern jazz? Right out, there two things wrong with that.

First of all, I don’t think I invented it alone. I mean, lots of us did it. We all sat up in Harlem and put the new stuff together. It wasn’t just me. I got things from them; they got things from me.

And second of all, if I did invent it, like they say, I invented it back in New Marsails in Bud Rodney’s band, or maybe even before that, in the blind home. Because all my life I been playing what I liked. Take Norman Spencer. He coulda been the one who invented it hisself. He was doing new things way back in the twenties. I only listened and played what I liked in him and that was that. I didn’t decide one day—blam!—I’d play something new, because I been playing pretty much the same since I was thirteen, except now maybe I can play a little faster. But that ain’t genius. That’s just practicing.

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