Urbie Green discusses his early influences

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Urbie Green discusses the need for original style

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Urbie Green on working with a big band

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Q: “You don’t have much of an Alabama accent left! Been too long in the North? What we’re some of the things you were hearing there, in the community – was it jazz or just the dance bands of the day, or…”

A: “Well, I see the real main man of music in Mobile was a fellow named Bill Lagman who played a real nice cornet very much like Bix Beiderbecke-type of player. And he was a big influence on me and also my brothers, too, I'm sure. He was pretty much of a Dixieland kind of a setup and we've learned all those old things like royal garden blues, jazz me blues, and a dipper mouth blues. All those things that Bix was known for and I think it's a very good early training, really.”