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 ‡ MensahWali: Themusic was the social music of the time. As a teenager I went to dances with groups called ‡ The Stablemates, and they played jazz. ‡ Horace Silver, ‡ Cal Tjader, ‡ Kenny Dorham, ‡ Max Roach… they played dances that I went to as a teenager, so [jazz] was a social music. It was on the radio all the time, in the summertime you’d walk down the street and hear jazz coming out of the windows. There were a lot of different clubs all around that promulgated the music. From where I lived, at Park Place and Nostrand,‡ the Continental was right there, ‡ [Club] La Marchal was up the street less than a quarter of a mile away, the ‡ Arlington Inn, The ‡ Baby Grand [Brooklyn], ‡ the Blue Coronet, ‡ Town Hill… they were all within walking distance, I didn’t even have to go a half a mile. ‡ Brownies… they were all in the neighborhood, [jazz] was everywhere. As young people the guys I hung out with we played that music on the jukebox in the luncheonette. We’d go to ‡ Birdland and the ‡ Palladium on Sundays; we were into jazz, Latin music and R&B.