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In this interview, Ruth Binsky discusses the Left Bank Jazz Society and various jazz clubs in the Baltimore/Washington area."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. 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You joined the Left\nBank Jazz Society in 1964.\n\nBINSKY: In 1964.\n\nMCCLURE: Was that something you started?\n\nBINSKY: No. I was not one of the founders. I joined approximately four or five\nmonths after they became organized. I heard a program on the radio talking about\ntheir Sunday concert and decided I would go.\n\nAt the time there were not many members. So all of the members were working\nmembers and volunteers. There were promotions, mailing out flyers, and doing\nthose kinds of things. I was not involved in booking any of the groups.\n\nMCCLURE: Publicity stuff?\n\nBINSKY: The mailing of flyers and distribution of posters. There were not that\nmany women in the organization at that particular time -- three, maybe four at\nthe most. So we would do the mailings.\n\nMCCLURE: How did Left Bank get started?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=0.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BINSKY: There was a group of men who had been in service together and had gone\nto the Left Bank in Paris to hear music. They would get together and play music\nand from those gatherings they decided to promote live jazz.\n\nMCCLURE: Was it mainly national musicians or local musicians?\n\nBINSKY: In the beginning local musicians (although some of them are\nnationally-known). They later began to bring musicians in from New York City and\nuse local rhythm sections for them to work with.\n\nMCCLURE: Who were your favorite people?\n\nBINSKY: I guess some of my favorites were Jimmy Heath, Freddie Hubbard, Carmen\nMcRae, Etta Jones and Philly Joe Jones. There were others that I enjoyed, Cedar\nWalton, and Billy Higgins.\n\nMCCLURE: You said you saw your first concert when you were fifteen?\n\nBINSKY: I was fifteen, and I was able to hear Lambert, Hendricks and Ross and\nDave Brubeck with Paul Desmond.\n\nMCCLURE: Where was it?\n\nBINSKY: I think it may have been at the Lyric. It's been such a long time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=120.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ago.\n\nMCCLURE: When you worked at the North End Lounge, local musicians played there?\n\nBINSKY: Yes, but only on weekends. Terry Addison, the owner, was also a member\nof Left Bank. Before, when Mr. Bartz owned the North End Lounge, there were many\nBaltimore musicians playing there and also national musicians.\n\nMCCLURE: When you were a teenager growing up, where did you go?\n\nBINSKY: Well, when I was a teenager growing up, I was not going out. As a matter\nof fact, I got married at seventeen. I listened to jazz on the radio, but I\ndidn't attend concerts.\n\nMCCLURE: So you just went to Left Bank?\n\nBINSKY: Not as a teenager. I was twenty-four years old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=240.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I heard about the\nLeft Bank Jazz Society and I started going out on my own to hear music. I bought\nrecords and had records that belonged to family members, and I used to listen to\na station that came out of Chicago late at night that played jazz all of the\ntime. That was one of my favorite things to do.\n\nMCCLURE: You're still involved in jazz now, right?\n\nBINSKY: Yes. Not as much as before. Left Bank doesn't present concerts weekly\nanymore. When they do present a concert, I usually go. I attend the monthly\nconcerts and festivals of the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz. I go to the\nEast Coast Jazz Festival in Rockville every year. And lately there has been a\nlot of jazz in churches, jazz vespers. Sometimes I produce bus trips to\nPennsylvania for Sunday concerts if I think there is a group that people from\nBaltimore will want to hear.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=360.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MCCLURE: How you do think the music scene here in Baltimore has changed?\n\nBINSKY: It's changed because we don't have many clubs featuring jazz. Back in\nwhat I would call \"the day,\" and the day for me would have been when my parents\nwere going out, I understand there were a number of clubs in and around\nBaltimore, especially Pennsylvania Avenue, that featured jazz all of the time --\ntop name jazz musicians. I was not fortunate enough to be able to hear those\nmusicians because I was too young.\n\nWhen I came along, most of my time was spent at the Famous Ballroom with the\nLeft Bank.\n\nThere were a few clubs that brought them in. There was Ethel's Place that I\nabsolutely loved. I'm sorry it didn't last. It was convenient. I didn't have to\ngo to Blues Alley in D.C. to hear music. It was one of the few places where you\ncould hear local and national musicians.\n\nThere was the Bandstand that my husband was the manager of for about three years\nin Fell's Point. There was music every weekend.\n\nBut we don't have as many clubs, and some of the older supporters now don't want\nto come out and go to clubs. The younger people are not always that supportive,\nor maybe they're listening to a different type of music.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=480.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MCCLURE: You mentioned Blues Alley. What was that?\n\nBINSKY: Blues Alley is a jazz club in D.C. They feature national musicians most\nof the time. It has been there for many years. You could always hear good music\nthere. But, you know, it's D.C. You have to drive the distance.\n\nThere are a number of clubs in and around Washington that feature jazz, not only\non weekends, but during the week. You're not limited to weekends. We just don't\nhave that in Baltimore. You have some neighborhood clubs that feature jazz, but\nagain you're subjected to smoke and a social scene more than a listening scene.\nIf I go to a club to hear some music, that's the reason I'm in\n\nthe club. I'm not there to socialize. I want to hear the music and if it's a\nsocial scene, you may not be able to appreciate the musicians.\n\nI'll listen in a concert setting, to hear the music without all of the distractions.\n\nMCCLURE: You attended the Laurel Jazz Festival?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=600.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BINSKY: Yes. The Laurel Jazz Festival I attended. Elzie Street was the promoter\nof the festival and he had a number of musicians working there. I remember\nFreddie Hubbard and Miles Davis were there. So many musicians were there over\nthe two-day period -- usually a Saturday and a Sunday.\n\nMCCLURE: How long did that jazz festival--\n\nBINSKY: I only remember two years, '77 and '78. I think those were the only two years. Maybe there was a third year. I may not have been involved with that year, because I used to sometimes help him in the ticket office for those festivals.\n\nMCCLURE: You worked behind the scenes for everything.\n\nBINSKY: Which sometimes means you don't get to hear all of the music that you'd like to\nhear because you're doing other things.\n\nMCCLURE: You mentioned Henry Baker.\n\nBINSKY: Yes. Henry Baker is a saxophone player who lives in Baltimore, and who\ntraveled on the road before I knew anything about him. He owned a club on\nPennsylvania Avenue called Peyton Place and, later, the Closet, which was on\nFranklin Street, and both of those places would bring in musicians. Peyton Place\nwas probably in '66 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=720.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or '67, somewhere along that time. The first time I heard\nMiles Davis in person was at Peyton Place. He brought in musicians every\nweekend, named musicians, and it was a nice place to go. It was on Pennsylvania,\nbetween Clifton and Bolton Avenue, across from the Red Fox, which also was a\nclub that featured jazz, local musicians. Ethel Ennis played the Red Fox a lot.\n\nThere were other musicians of course. I didn't go there often. By the time I\nstarted going to Red Fox, they were not having as much music. Maybe ownership\nchanged. I'm not really sure what happened. I went there a few times with other\nmembers of the Left Bank. Henry Baker was the person who opened across the\nstreet from there. He was bringing in different musicians and kept a crowd.\n\nMCCLURE: You said that your favorite musician was Carmen McRae.\n\nBINSKY: My favorite vocalist was Carmen. Freddie Hubbard was my favorite trumpet\nplayer. Miles and Clifford Brown were a close second. I loved Billy Higgins and\nPhilly Joe Jones as drummers. You can say one of the favorite with a list of\nten, fifteen or twenty.\n\nI remember I said that I wrote that on the internet not so long ago and someone\nsaid, what do you mean, he was your favorite trumpet player? Is he deceased?\n\nNo. It means that I now have a new favorite trumpet player. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=840.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My favorite pianist\nis Cedar Walton, I love Cedar. I used to enjoy Albert Dailey. There are so many\ngreat musicians. Now I'm talking older musicians, but there are a lot of younger\nmusicians who are coming along who play just as well. You get your favorites and\nyou like them for whatever reasons. I like the drummers. I liked Billy Higgins,\nI loved Philly Joe Jones. I like, right now, Wanard Harper, who is a young\nmusician who reminds me a lot of Philly Joe Jones. Bass players, I enjoyed Ron\nCarter and Buster Williams. They are not the only ones. Reuben Brown lived in\nWashington, plus he played with a lot of top-notch musicians. He was one of my\nfavorite pianists. He is no longer playing.\n\nSteve Novosel who was a bass player who lived in Virginia, worked a lot when my\nhusband was managing the club, and was also one of the bass players I enjoyed.\nThere are so many musicians. You can say one of the favorites, and you can have\na list of ten or fifteen or twenty.\n\nMCCLURE: So since you worked behind the scenes, you got to meet a lot of great musicians.\n\nBINSKY: Yes. I did.\n\nMCCLURE: Any names that come to your mind?\n\nBINSKY: I met them because for many years I was financial secretary of Left\nBank. That meant that I was the person who paid them at the end of the day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=960.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When\nI was paying them, it was strictly business. I met so many people. Nobody in\nparticular sticks out in mind.\n\nRoland Kirk, who was blind, played Left Bank and when he was paid, he was able\nto count his money -- check all the money. He could actually tell from the feel\nexactly how much money he was paid, and then he separated exactly what he was\ngoing to pay each musician. I was impressed with that.\n\nMCCLURE: Wow!\n\nBINSKY: I met Carmen at the Left Bank when she played there, and I also met her\non a jazz cruise. She was one of the people there, along with Dizzy Gillespie\nand a number of other good musicians.\n\nMCCLURE: Where was she from?\n\nBINSKY: The D.C. area. She lived in D.C.\n\nMCCLURE: What other musicians came from D.C.?\n\nBINSKY: There are a lot of good musicians from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1080.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chicago, Detroit. Like Freddie, I\nunderstand, was from Detroit. Harold Maybern, who was an excellent piano player.\nHe came out of Memphis and lived in New York and worked out of New York. A few\nlater went to the West Coast, but most of them were East Coast musicians.\n\nMCCLURE: How did you get started, liking jazz?\n\nBINSKY: My parents, and my relatives all listened to jazz. It was something that\nwas played so I guess I heard it a lot. At that time, you didn't make a choice\nabout what you were listening to. Now your parents listen to one thing, and the\nkids listen to another station. Well, you didn't change the radio station in the\nhouse. And it was a radio too by the way. Whatever they were playing was what\nyou heard. I heard Billie Eckstine, and I heard Dinah [Washington], and I heard\nDizzy and Jimmy Lunceford.\n\nI didn't know a thing about Jimmy Lunceford's band other than they were playing\nthat music. I lived across the street from some members of a group called Three\nBees and a Honey. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1200.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was very young, probably five or six, but they used to\nrehearse, and I would go over there and just sit and listen. I don't remember\ntheir names, but the Honey would let me play with the [drum] brushes.\n\nWhen I went to senior high school I joined the school band. I played the drums\nfor a couple semesters. Of course, it wasn't jazz then.\n\nWhen I was of age and able to go out and really start listening to jazz, that\nwas the music of choice. So once I joined Left Bank, which was at that point a\nhobby for me, I became an active working member. That was my outlet, my hobby.\nSome folks play golf every day. I could have\n\ngone to Left Bank every day. I mean, I lived for the weekend, for that Sunday\nwhen I could go to hear this next group.\n\nWho is it going to be? -- people I had never heard of. I just looked forward to\nthat. That was my reward at the end of the week.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1320.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MCCLURE: I was reading about Left Bank, how it had financial difficulty in '77,\n'78. I think it was an article about how it wasn't going to have money for '78.\n\nBINSKY: I don't even remember what happened in '78. Left Bank, on a Sunday,\nwould sometimes have a line out the door, depending on who the musician was,\nwith people lined up on Charles Street down to Lanvale, waiting to get in. It\nwould be packed with people coming. It must have\n\nleft around '80,'81 or '82 and they were still doing weekly concerts at the time.\n\nIn later years, they ran into some financial problems. They were doing them\nmonthly, and for a while they weren't doing any concerts. They got some funding\n-- donations -- and they were able to sell some of the tapes that they recorded\nin the late 60s, early 70s.\n\nMCCLURE: Do they have tapes of all the people who played there?\n\nBINSKY: No. There were tapes made in the late 60s and 70s. We would play those\ntapes at club gatherings. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1440.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were just meant for our listening pleasure. Now\nthere are CDs with the musicians that came through in the early '70s. Only eight\nCDs have been released. \n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1560.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MCCLURE: How do you get them?\n\nBINSKY: You may buy them from the Left Bank Jazz Society, record stores and me.\n\nMCCLURE: Have you listened to them?\n\nBINSKY: Oh yes, I've listened to them, because I was at each one of those\nconcerts. Some I remember more vividly than others. In the early years, I never\nmissed a Sunday concert. The CDs are especially good because if I was working on\nthe ticket booth and people were coming in, I was not able to hear that first\nset. Now I can really appreciate it, like you were just there last Sunday.\n\nMCCLURE: What was it like growing up in Baltimore, when you were growing up?\n\nBINSKY: I grew up in 1940. I lived in northwest Baltimore, which is called\nSandtown. I grew up as an only child. For me, I guess, it was fine. When I was\nnine or ten, I used to go around to my neighbors and ask them if they wanted\ntheir steps scrubbed, because we had marble steps. I would scrub their marble\nsteps, for twenty-five cents. I had regular customers, and every other day I'd\ngo scrub their steps.\n\nThen around Christmas holidays, you would receive an advertisement for Christmas\ncards -- if you wanted to sell these Christmas cards. When it would come to our\nhouse I would always take it. It was funny because my mother never knew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1680.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I\nwas doing it until the neighbors would say they were getting Christmas cards and\nthis big box would come. I'd knock on the door and sell Christmas cards and the\ncards would end up having their names printed in them.\n\nThe money that I made from these things was a big thing because there was Read's\nDrugstore at the time and they always had these little dollar gifts, like four\nshot glasses for a dollar, or something else for a dollar. I would save these\nquarters up, and then at Christmas, I couldn't wait to go buy family members\nthese little dollar gifts they probably didn't want, but I thought were so cute.\n\nI had a good time growing up in Baltimore, elementary school. I enjoyed junior\nhigh school. We walked to school. I went to Booker T. Washington, which was on\nLafayette and McCulloh.\n\nThere weren't buses, and it seemed like such a long way. Well, it is. I wouldn't\nconsider walking that far anymore. But we walked to school every day, and walked\nhome very day, and it was fun.\n\nSenior high school, I went to Carver Vocational Technical High. I was a business\nmajor, and, as a matter of fact, my bookkeeping teacher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1800.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes goes on some\nof the jazz trips that I give. It was a kick to see him and his wife there\nbecause he was one of our favorite teachers.\n\nI dropped out in the eleventh grade and got married. Then I enrolled in Douglass\nHigh evening school, and I finished my last year at Douglass High. I'm always\ninvited back, and I go back with my class that I would have graduated with the\nprevious year. I always celebrate with them.\n\nGrowing up for me was a good time. I enjoyed that time. I have absolutely\nnothing to complain about. I grew up in the Methodist Church. I enjoyed being\nvery active, singing in the choir, going to bible school, and, when I was older,\nteaching Bible school. I stopped going a year after I was married because I\nmoved and it was not convenient. I have since gone back, and spend more time\nthere now than I did for years -- in the jazz scene in particular.\n\nMCCLURE: What about your husband's clubs? He owned it for three years.\n\nBINSKY: He was a manager for three years. He and a friend from his neighborhood\nopened the club in the 1978, and it lasted until 1982. It was called the\nBandstand and it was located on Fleet Street in Fell's Point. They brought in\nmany musicians, some I knew already and some I did not. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=1920.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a fun time, and a\ngood time, and we have many good memories from that place. Musicians come to\ntown now who played there often. We laugh and we talk about those days, the\nmemories of that place.\n\nMCCLURE: What are some of your memories?\n\nBINSKY: Oh there were so many. Well, the club would be packed (90 to 100\npeople). It was a small club, and there were some musicians who would not ever\ncome on time and my husband, who hadn't heard from them, would just be so upset.\nAre they going to show? Will they make it? Then they would come, and they would\nplay so well you would just forget how late they had been. If it snowed and\neverybody was going home, other people would be coming out to hear the music.\nThat just never stopped them.\n\nSome of the musicians who played there were Sonny Stitt, who was a regular at\nthe Bandstand, Reuben Brown, Steve Novosel and Dude Brown, a drummer who was a\nregular. They were like the house band. Then for a while, Philly Joe Jones came\na lot, and along with Sonny Stitt, and there was Tommy Flanagan and Harold\nMaybern. There were more musicians than I can think of: Cecil Payne, Curtis\nFuller, and Gary Bartz played a lot, Albert Dailey, who was an excellent pianist\nfrom Baltimore -- Stan Getz said that of all the pianists he played with, Albert\nDailey was by far his favorite -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=2040.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ira Sullivan, Red Rodney, Charlie Rouse, Rufus\nReid, Buster Williams, Big Nick Nickolas, Bobby Watson, Art Pepper, Al Cohn,\nPepper Adams.\n\nMCCLURE: In the Baltimore jazz community, did everybody know each other?\n\nBINSKY: You may not have known their name, but you recognized the face and\nsometimes have conversations. Left Bank seated maybe about five or six hundred people.\n\nThe Bandstand, for instance, you could only get a hundred twenty-five or a\nhundred fifty people squeezed in. Most of the people knew each other and it was\nan interracial scene. They would just be packed in and it was just a grand time.\nIt was like the room was always filled with love. It was just a good time, just\na real good scene.\n\nWhen you go to a concert at the museum, and it's concert style and you sit there\nand you applaud. Every once in a while ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=2160.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it gets a little emotional, but it's not\nas emotional as it was then.\n\nIt starts exactly at five [o'clock], and forty-five minutes, cut, that's it. There is not\na lot of time for improvisation, to really get into it with the musician. That\nyou can have the back-and-forth thing happening.\n\nMaybe the alcohol helped it along, but it didn't make a lot of difference. It\nwas just a good time.\n\nINTERRUPTION\n\nBINSKY: That's one of the concerts that people were down Charles Street and around the corner, waiting to get in. That was the concert. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375#t=2280.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44111/file/117375/transcript/35131/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, yeah. Especially that was around the time of A Love Supreme. It was a good time.\n\nMCCLURE: I don't know anything about John Coltrane live. \n\nBINSKY: I don't know the exact year. Maybe in the '70s. 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