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Too bad Lester Bowie's not around...

and iirc, the success of the Mosaic sets then let to the general releases a little later on.

Thank god for that, that would be tough!

There's an alternate or two from the Blue Trane sessions that are still unreleased, iirc. None are game changers.

Tough Monday, eh? I feel you on that one.

I saw a trailer of some sort on You Tube and the only thing I could think of was, oh, this shit again. I thought he had retired or otherwise gone away. Not Bolden, the other guy. OTOH, Walt Bolden, is there a movie there?

There you go. No documented offense, no due process, no nothing except "we're tired of your bullshit" (whoever "we" were, and please don't think it had to be limited to law enforcement) and BAM! there goes your card. And sure, I have no doubt that the actual technical grounds for revoking the card was "drug-related", but I cannot rule out that what motivated the revocation might have been something else. Everybody knew Bird as an addict, and Birdland itself was notorious in its earlier days for being a place for junkies to play (cf Billy Taylor's remembrances of feeling a draft for not participating the in the "pool" backstage at Birdland, where the performers would all put in funds to get their score for the evening). Somebody was keeping all that action safe, if not Morris Levy, then somebody who reported to him. The system itself was ready-made to be a tool of corruption, extortion, and leverage. Keep all that in mind when trying to figure out why Bird got his card pulled without due process, and for reasons still unknown.

They're not hi-fi, ok? Just so you know. But, what was that record...Bird is free on these sessoons. Bird is very free. 1953 saw some great Bird performances.

Yeah, no question that he had lost his card. But how/why, geez, possibilities are endless. Bird got banned from Birdland, Morris Levy owned Birdland. Bird was a junkie, Levy was a stone gangster. You do the math. Just saying, I can't find any real evidence of an actual arrest. Oh, and as far as possibilities...the hypothetical of a gangster jazz-businessman such as Morris Levy using a corrupt legal process to attempt a hostile takeover of an unsteady talent''s career to God knows what end (s)...let it be noted at this point that Norman Granz kept the records and JATP work available for Bird, and then let's wonder if Granz was extending life support to Bird, taking advantage of his situation to get Bird to make those crossover-y record, some of both, all of neither, or what. Hell, maybe this whole thing was a Levy vs Granz thing. Or maybe not. No matter, maybe Roy Haynes knows the real story. All I know is that I still see no evidence of an actual arrest having occurred. Past that...

And the derby? Was he emulating the Lion, or what?

Dello Joio won a Pulitzer for that piece, so I guess the cleansing wasn't totally successful. I'm suspicious of Agenda Motherfuckers, I don't care where they are. The truth is enough, everything else is just sociopolitical chessturbation.

hmmmm.... that sounds like a different Smith to me.

This link, verbatim. Works for me! https://myspace.com/teddaniel Content, however, is, uh...aged?

Nobody?

Seriously?

"Bird never got busted" is part of The Lore. All I can find on some sites is that is that Bird was "arrested" for heroin possession in 1951. Never formerly charged/indicted/etc. Definitely never went to court over it. There's this: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/jazz/dbird.htm Despite his drawing power, nightclub owners gradually became reluctant to book him, for fear that he would show up in no shape to perform or not show up at all. At one point he was banned from Birdland, the Broadway nightclub that had been named in his honor in 1950. Although he somehow eluded arrest for possession, the cabaret card he needed in order to perform in New York City nightclubs was taken from him without due process, at the recommendation of the narcotics squad, in 1951. I can't find any hard proof, any "origin story" for Bird ever actually having been arrested. As much sensation there was around him (we all know about him pissing in that phone booth), that seems odd. It seems more likely that there was some sort of incident, likely (but by no means certainly) involving narcotics (actual or circumstantial), enough to get his card revoked. But there's no record of an actual arrest, and definitely not one of anything that would usually follow an arrest. I see some articles saying "arrested in 1951 for heroin possession" but nothing backs that up as an actual historical event. More likely, it seems an example of sloppy thinking that, ok, Bird lost his card in 1951, that means he was arrested for heroin. No, it does not meant that. At all. Which is why the writer phrased it thusly: For reasons unclear, possibly drug- related, Parker had his cabaret license pulled. For reasons unclear, possibly drug related. That means there's no definite answer. It might have been an actual possession incident, or it could have just as easily have been Bird pissed off the wrong guy (Morris Levy????????) and got set up. Bird was a junkie, the cops were corrupt, and the whole cabaret card system was an excuse for shake downs. "At the recommendation of the narcotics squad"....you know, in real-world terms, that could mean any damn thing, as could "drug-related". On a somewhat musically-related note, the 1953 Bird Open Door recordings are some of the best Bird ever: https://www.discogs.com/Charlie-Parker-At-The-Open-Door/release/10622622

Bird never took a bust.

A very interesting program, imo. Contents here:https://www.dramonline.org/albums/piano-music-by-african-american-composers/notes

Ok, then, if you score, please let us know what else is on there. Any collection with a title like that will get my attention, for sure!

taking this step-by-step...there's a lot to absorb, or at least seems to be.

What's on it?

Outback is the only one I can come back to with anything other than a sense of curiosity to see if I'll like it better now. But Moon Germs probably has better tunes.