Charlie Byrd Song Quotations

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.