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One day towards the end of 1953, while in New York, I got a call from John Hammond. He wanted to know if I could make a recording session that he had planned with George Avakian for Columbia. John, I thought, was the most important man in my whole career. He did everything he could for me when I was with Basie, he introduced me to Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson, he put me on the Carnegie Hall concert “From Spirituals to Swing”, and he would encourage me at all times. He had done so many things for me that I just knew the session that he wanted me to do would be a gas, so I accepted.
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© 1986 Buck Clayton
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Clayton, B. (1986). From New York to Australia. In: Buck Clayton’s Jazz World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08727-3_10
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