The 15th already! October's a bird that flies too fast. Time herself's such a bird. I would freeze her flight, but not that of
Charley 'Bird' Parker, Ornithology
Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen, Charlie Parker
Kerouac and Allen, October in the Railroad Earth
Jack Kerouac, San Francisco
Mose Allison, Parchman Farm.
This one goes out to Tom Gastineau, keyboard man in our band Dudley Nightshade, who introduced me to Mose Allison in the late '60s. Tom went on to make it, more or less, in the music business. I caught Allison at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California, a couple or three times before I headed East in August of '73. Heard him on the East Coast as well at a joint in Marblehead, Mass. with a girlfriend I dubbed 'Springtime Mary' which was Kerouac's name for his girlfriend Mary Carney.
Mose Allison, Young Man's Blues
Mose Allison, I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues
Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo al a Turk
Herbie Hancock, Watermelon Man