re- Mobley resarch q

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

do you think it would be hard to obtain copies of Mobley police records? according to the liner notes to slice of the top, he had 3 convictions...

[AllenLowe]

I didn't know he recorded at the station -

[Niko]

police records are the major source of pierre briancon's san quentin jazz band book - and since that book is based on relatively easily available sources (say, three interviews, 15 books, google and the prison newspaper) otherwise it can't be that hard to get them (though maybe you have to be a journalist?)

the stories drawn from these records are usually pretty depressing, a bit confusing and a bit boring (say, released from prison, stopped by the police for driving too fast 10 days later (alternatively for stealing a piece of meat at the super market or for buglary), not showing up at the driving trial, thus searched by the police and caught with a bunch of illegal substances and back to prison... that's what the stories of nathaniel meeks or dupree bolton as constructed from their criminal records look like... not much music in there...

[Dan Gould]

To find them you'd have to know where he was arrested and when, and theoretically, if those records were transferred to microfilm, you might be able to get a look at the whole lot of them, to try to find the one you want. If the reports aren't on microfilm, and I am not sure why they would be, you'd really need a report number to get at it, most likely.

[AllenLowe]

wasn't he busted in Philly? Let's send Ron S. over to find out -

Edited July 23, 2009 by AllenLowe

[BruceH]

Doesn't this all come under the Freedom of Jazz Information Act?