I recently came across an issue of Jazz Journal magazine from 1961 with Harry Carney on the cover and featured in an expansive interview. This thing is LONG. Harry just seems to be going stream of consciousness, but there are some wonderful things in there. Musicians he admired, the origin of his sound (Coleman Hawkins + Adrian Rollini!), his time driving Duke Ellington around, tour life, Vegas, ‘current’ musicians he was listening to (Pepper, Mulligan, Brignola etc).
Head on over to download the scan or read the transcribed text!