Wendell Brunious interviewed by Monk Rowe, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 16, 2000 [video]

Table of Contents: Biography -- About the Preservation Hall Band/Musical stagnation in New Orleans/Family music background -- Racial opportunities : greater opportunities for "White Creoles" -- More on family/Musical beginnings and eventual job replacing Dizzy Gillespie for Cab Calloway -- First Dixieland gig : as "weakest link" made bandleader for the night and called the songs -- Early gigs while still in business school -- Getting into Lionel Hampton Band : "Lionel paid weekly, very weakly" -- Touring with various groups and his own band -- Demonstrates New Orleans feel/Describes Clifford Brown lick in his playing -- A mature sound : Cannonball Adderley and Clark Terry -- Lack of blues in jazz today -- Suggested listening list for trumpet students -- Louis Armstrong : "that guy paid dues that no one had to pay after him."