![]() Trombone worked for a couple of years, but I didn't want my lips to look like I played a horn. And her brother is a saxophonist he played for a couple of Jazz greats.ĬLAY: Did you start by playing music at church?įRAZIER: No, I started taking classical piano lessons at like five, and at school I picked up the trombone and drums at around eight or nine years old. But I think her sister was an influence on me she's a classical pianist, an incredible player. My father is a baptist minister and my mother took music lessons growing up. Now, with an indeterminate period of time available before he would have to rejoin the chaos of Rothko's bandstand, we made our way to the basement bar, where different music was blaring from the speakers, but blaring more quietly than upstairs.įRAZIER: My parents weren't heavy duty into jazz and rock music. ![]() I liked Paul's style right away, and we agreed we would do an interview at this gig he had coming up at Rothko. I had met Paul a couple weeks earlier when he was playing bass at my neighborhood hangout in North Brooklyn, Black Betty, with a local band called Brian J and the Pimps of Joytime. What I did know is that he had been playing bass for a good long time, with David Byrne among many other musical greats, and with the great unknowns-a musician's musician who just wants to be a part of good music, wherever he finds it. "SO ARE YOU READY?" "WHAT?" "IT'S PRETTY LOUD IN HERE!" We were already standing a quarter inch from each other, and I didn't really know this guy well enough to get any closer. It was a club called Rothko, on Suffolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, a neighborhood newly bloated with high-end shops and restaurants but hemorrhaging artists and generally still irritable from its skyrocketting trendiness. I squeezed myself into the human mass and found Paul at the center of it all. ![]() ![]() Rothko Club, Suffolk Street, New York City ![]() An interview with bassist Paul Frazier conducted by John Clay ![]()
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