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When I had the gig, I was bringing my money to pay BH: I had some people talk me into it. I had a the musicians. The first little bit of money and I was thinking I would class I had there had 90 buy a small brownstone uptown. There was a people in the class. I lady on 132nd Street that was trying to get rid of thought, “This is nice. her place. Some other people we saying, “Barry, Maybe if I do three days of why don’t we get a place in midtown?” I said, this, that’ll be nice.” That “Well, we’ll look at the place and we’ll see.” We was the dumbest thing I went to it. We had a meeting and they talked me ever did. I should have into it. “Okay, let’s try it.” It began in 1982 and done one class with 90 lasted for five years. The whole idea for this people. I spread it out and teaching thing started a long time ago. I was started getting 30 people at teaching for [trumpet player] Joe Newman’s Jazz each class because they Interactions in the 1970s. One time, at the end of came when they wanted to. the schedule when I was teaching, I was sup- Rent was $3,000 a month posed to be there at 4:00 PM and got involved in and then the landlord things and realized that I was late.