Buddy Tate talks candidly about his infamous 'hotel accident'.

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Buddy Tate talks about playing with Celebrity Club.

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Buddy Tate discusses his influence on younger generations.

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Q: “In the late forties and fifties, if you hadn’t been able to get together the celebrity club band that was working regularly, a lot of people had to turn to Dixieland things; even Roy Eldridge was making a few Dixieland records, which wasn’t your style at all…”

A: “And I was, as you said, I went into a celebrity club and I had my band and I always love Bassey's style and sound and things like that. So we had the band pretty much like that for dance with the really reasonable guys, I put the band here on one side and the other right guy. Because it sound all together different with Pat Jenkins and Eli and the band. The sound of the band, you know, there are the better soloists but that doesn’t really make a band. I mean, when you’re all together. Pat had a sound that was ... it's harder to describe, but other trumpet players just didn’t do that sound. I used him on a lot of records, but ... but he wasn't a Pat, for this particular thing that I wanted. And Dicky, he wasn’t an Eli and Dick was fantastic player, so is Daz, but when all together, it didn’t gel and Eli and Pat would.”