Learned about this master drummer Alvin Queen on the Jazz Video Guy livestream on youtube this past Fri June 5 2020. This here is also an excellent interview. Mr Queen shares so many stories about NYC, learning as a child drumming on the cement floor outside, being one of 5 kids there was no money for music lessons, playing as a child protege with jazz greats who took him under their wings and encouraging him to play professionally. First record recorded at age 12. He was embraced by jazz community including Cannonball Adderly, Max Roach, Ben Webster. Excellent jazz historian and master drummer Alvin Queen. Important interview should definitely be preserved. Can we can't get Mr Queen to write a book?!
Thanks for the comment Dan. We recently did a part 2 with him via zoom, he still lives in Switzerland and makes clear that he thinks of himself as "old school." Monk
Thanks again for posting, great interview. You have posted so many, if I may ask are there many more to come? And Mr. Rowe, you have a real talent to extract great stories and make all the different personalities feel comfortable. This information is so valuable especially for those of us who "came up the hard way" and or from the generation after most of the swing era cats were already gone. Thank you Fillius Jazz Archive!
Thanks for the compliment. As of this writing we are not quite half way putting up all the interviews we have done. We are always on the lookout for when one of our interviewees is in the news, or perhaps when they pass on. We began putting up the earliest interviews first, but we are still conducting interviews to this day!
