Larry Ridley: The whole scene really was an extension between all the boroughs. Working uptown [Harlem] was always hip, working at  Count Basie’s, the  Club Baron, the  Blue Coronet in  Brooklyn, up in the Bronx there was the  Club 845; so we were all working at all of these different clubs. So my impression was, yeah there were hip people in  Brooklyn – naturally people from each of the boroughs had their own parochial chauvinism going on, but it was basically all the same; particularly being someone who was – for lack of a better expression – an expatriate coming from Indianapolis, Indiana to New York it was all one big thing to me in terms of the places we could work. There were all kinds of jam sessions going on that we could play at, there was a lot of good stuff happening during that particular time.