Charles Davis interviewed by Monk Rowe, Clinton, New York, August 23, 1997 [transcript]

Table of Contents: Biography -- Choosing music life/Competition -- 1950's work with Sun Ra/Club de Lisa breakfast show with Joe Williams/Integration in music -- Walter Diet/DeSalvo High School/Work with Billie Holiday -- Playing baritone/Small-label recordings -- Bebop bible/Bebop theory/Thought process while improvising -- Dance and jazz -- Audience reaction in Italy -- Bop melodies on standards' changes -- Jazz evolution/Honking Tenors, walking the bar, and audiences demanding to hear solos as played on records -- Practicing/Dealing with rejection.