Duke Ellington rehearses for a 1973 concert in London’s Westminster Abbey (Getty Images)

Hate Cake i can give you a problem if you need one and a solution, it’s easy you have to sacrifice something, baby come on, eat your hate cake, gobble up the whole plate. happy birthday. you’re so angry because we’re close to the outlet or out of the closet or still sitting cross-legged by the dinner table at 31, 32, 33, 34 because we’re happily married or long dead and buried because it’s unbearable we’re still having fun. we just dodged a bullet, dislodged and hooded dirty and bookish, grieving and crooked awake and good looking, foul-mouthed, fuck it. You say we’re obnoxious, our jack doesn’t do boxes i’ll write it in cross stitch for the archive of foxes. cool story, babe. now make me a sand castle unburn the witches make the fire stop faster if you turn women into shapes like i learned from men when i was younger take a long hard look at ourselves our hunger brought us here my prefrontal cortex is a plughole vortex this stumbling fortress enters rigor mortis pulled me out here with forceps. a living, breathing corpus they shot us right through the heart oh my, how we all did our part now by the abyss mall fountain i am slowly drowing eating a donut puking through the hole things got a bit out of control but we’ll make a new glass coffin for snow white this time it’s tinted. I value my privacy, it’s almost vintage From the comfort of your own home you can watch the world fall into pieces they say it’s beautiful. You can have a problem if you need one and a solution, it’s easy you have to sacrifice something, baby come on, eat the hate cake, gobble up the whole plate, happy birthday.

If that is Max Roach on drums, then that is around the time Bird was a constant performer at the Royal Roost. I don’t see Miles Davis in the group, so I would assume this is after the Christmas of 1948. If that is Kenny Dorham on Trumpet, which it looks like, then this is probably after 1948. Miles Davis left the group, because he said he didn’t ‘like the way Duke Jordan,’ looked at him. Miles told Charlie Parker, “I don’t like the way he looks at me. We should kick him out the band.”..Bird told Miles, “Miles, the day you get your own band you can kick out whoever, until then, he stays.” Kenny Dorham became the immediate replacement of Miles Davis, after Miles pulled a no show Christmas Eve 1948 and started his own thing.

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“I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right - shame on you.” - Louis Armstrong

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