GQ: Where did you go out?
Walt Frazier: Wilt’s Smalls Paradise. 135th and 7th in Harlem.
GQ: Where were you living?
Walt Frazier: New Yorker Hotel. 33rd and 8th. But Harlem at the time, you could go anywhere in Harlem. You might see Coltrane, Les McCann. All these guys, playing for free.
GQ: Did you like jazz?
Walt Frazier: Not too much. When I’m out I like to rock. But you’d go to the lounges and these guys would just be right over there [points a couple feet away]. We didn’t know we were witnessing history. I’d see Miles Davis sitting on his stoop. All these famous people with no bodyguards, nothing.
GQ: What did Harlem look like back then?
Walt Frazier: Sharp. Everybody’s dicked. You ever see Harlem in the fifties and sixties? Everybody’s dressed up. It’s before drugs, man. It was nice. Fashionable