Bird Page #4

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Will you write this down for me?

- Why don't you write it down?

I got no paper and people

are waiting for me in the cab.

Write it down in the morning.

I won't be here in the morning.

I'm going on the road from here.

Where?

Nice apartment.

Maybe I went out on my own too soon.

- Where? Where are you going?

- I don't know.

They know.

Will you write this down for me?

If I get this gig in California,

am I going to be able to find you?

California?

Not supposed to be easy

to score in California.

Sh*t.

Hey!

Got a gig. I gotta go.

Whenever you get to where

you're going, call me. All right?

I thought I told you to shut him up.

Good night.

Night.

I thought you were in Philadelphia!

- I was.

- What are you doing here?

- I'm rehearsing.

- You got a dance job?

- You bet.

That's nice.

I was checking on a record date.

Oh, wow.

So you're looking splendid.

When are you gonna marry me?

When you straighten up

and walk like a jazz musician.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

You want a bite of this?

It's my third one.

I got gum.

Maybe that's the secret.

To play like Bird, eat like Bird.

All those 2 and 4 bar breaks.

What you mean is, I eat

an awful lot for a junkie, don't I?

Don't tell me what I mean, man.

Sorry, man.

So how you come to know

so much about music?

Will you talk to me?

Heritage.

My father produced nightclub shows.

Broadway Ben, they called him.

I had my sweet 16 party

at the Cotton Club.

It's always been musicians.

You weren't seeing about

any record date tonight.

No. And you knew I wasn't in Philly.

Everyone knows I lost that gig.

- That's right.

- That's right.

- So?

- So?

So why are we conning each other?

Everyone assumes we're an item

because I show up wherever you play.

You do?

I don't always say hello. And you

don't usually leave alone either.

And while we're on the subject...

...how many wives do you have?

I have met more women

who claim to be...

...Mrs. Charlie Parker!

And all of them wearing rings!

Rings are cheap.

Rings are cheap?

Is that what you want to say?

Is that all you want to say?

- What size ring you wear?

- Oh, no. Not me.

Tell me more about Broadway Ben.

He had a way about him.

The year I was born...

...he opened up a place on 58th Street

across from the Plaza Hotel.

He called it the Club Grandeur.

- That way.

- Is that where you lived?

Oh, no. By that time,

I was in Westchester.

Where?

Westchester, why?

Nothing, I just like the way

you say that. "Westchester, why?"

I wasn't typical in those days.

I'm half Jewish and my hero's

Duke Ellington. I mean, wow!

And now who is it?

Billy McNabb?

Oh, no. Billy's sexy

and he's dangerous...

...but I don't buy his records.

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