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know really what it's about,

Well, the Japs understand,

trom what I know,

You want to talk about it?

What do you mean?

I mean about the band

and how you teel and,,,

how you are,

I don't know,

It just didn't work,

I got so worried, you know, when I

didn't hear trom you tor three days,

I thought you were coming home,

and you didn't,

Well, I was,,,

Didn't you get the telegram

that I sent?

No, I didn't get it,

Look, I didn't send a telegram,

I just really wanted to be alone

tor a while, by myselt, that's all,

I wanted to tigure some things out,

I stayed down South tor a while,

and that was it,

Well, that's normal,

I understand that,

No, you don't understand that,

Don't tell me you do,

'cause you don't really understand it,

But I had to do it, baby,

Well, I understand

that I don't understand,

Okay, that's being better about it,

Hey, man!

Jimmy! Hey, man!

How you,,,? All right,

How you been, man?

Come on over

and meet some triends ot mine,

This is Booty

and this is Washington,

Hey, Jimmy, I hear

you play a mean tenor,

Yeah, I heard about you, too,

Hi, there,

How you been, man?

What you doing?

Where you been, huh?

I went on the road

with Frankie Harte,

Went on the road

with him tor a while,

then atter that

I took the band over myselt,

I heard something about that,

Kinda slipped away or something, huh?

No, it didn't slip away,

You heard that, though, huh?

Yeah, you know,

talk around here, you know,,,

No, it didn't really slip away,

What happened was that,

you know, uh,,,

I was working with bad musicians,

I mean, you can't pitch new cats

in Scranton or Allentown, PA, right?

You've got to come back to the Apple,

But, you know, you see

the same old taces, same old places,

I'm wondering it

I should be back here, man,

The same thing,

Listen, man, it you

get it together again, Jimmy,

I got this little thing going

over at the Harlem Club, man,

Oh, yeah,

Some really good cats over there, man,

You've got to come over there,

I will, I'll come up,

I've heard a lot about it,

- There's only one problem, though,

- What's that?

- They let white cats in?

- It you come around the back,

Hey, man!

Talk to it!

Talk to it!

Okay, betore you get excited,

just let me explain what happened,

Remember that cat Cecil Powell

I used to always tell you about?

Mm-hmm,

Yeah, all right, Okay,

We'd better go to lunch,

I'll explain it to you then,

What's this?

What am I getting into?

What are you getting into?

You're getting into a Buick,

A 1941 green Buick, Just get in,

I'll explain it to you later,

Trumpet player O, D,'d,

Long story, Just get in the car,

I'll explain it to you later,

Baby, it you don't get in the car,

I have no way ot talking to you,

I'm not gonna shout it

in the street,

so you ought to get in the car,

and then I'll explain it to you,

You remember Cecil Powell?

You remember him?

I met him at the Union, and I went

up to Harlem, this new club,

It was tantastic,

I had a great time, baby,

Why didn't you call me?

Why should I call you?

I'll be home in a little while,

so there was no reason to call,

Jimmy,,,

Hi, there,

Yeah, hi, there, how are you?

Are you pulling out?

Do I look like I'm pulling out?

Uh,,, excuse me,

Yeah?

Look, I don't mean to...

Would you look at me, please?

It I look at you,

I'm gonna get upset,

Yo! Hey! Look at me!

I can't believe this guy!

I'm looking at you, man!

I think you're being

just a little bit unreasonable,

Oh, am I?

Just a little bit,

Just a little bit inconsiderate,

I can't believe this guy!

- I'm being inconsiderate?

- Yeah!

I'm being inconsiderate?

Hey,,,!

You know what I'm doing?

I'm arguing with my wite!

You want to come

help me solve the problem?

It you can help me solve the problem,

you can have the space,

You can have the whole sidewalk,

as tar as I'm concerned,

You don't have to get nasty,

Just a minute, honey,

Let me handle this,

Get ott my back, will ya,

tor crying out loud?

- I don't want to hear it!

- Look, lady, get out ot here!

Just beat it, will ya?

- Don't mess with her,

- Get out ot here!

The same to you!

The same to you!

You're not gonna get this space

it it means I have to

die on the tloor!

You'll never get this space,

you son ot a,,,!

- Creep!

- What you're making me do!

Creep!

That's it, keep moving!

I hope you never get a space!

I hope you drive

around the block 50,000 times!

- They're dumb,

- Come on, let's go have lunch,

I'm not hungry,

Aw, honey, come on,

you're pregnant now,

Let's torget about all this other stutt

and just go have something to eat,

That's right, I am pregnant, Jimmy,

In tact, I'm six months pregnant,

so you're just gonna have to pay

a little more attention to me right now,

It's like, Jimmy,

you opened the door tor me,

You didn't even wait to see

it I got in all right,

and I have trouble

getting around now,

I do,

I understand you're pregnant,

What do you think I am, a dummy?

I just lost a band,

tor crying out loud,

It it had clicked, I'd still be

with the band right now, right?

When you wanted to come back

to New York to have the baby,

did I stop you?

No, I didn't stop you, right?

So you can't stop me,

And another thing I'm gonna tell you,

I don't like you doing that stutt up there,

What stutt?

The demo stutt,

You're too good tor that,

They should be

doing that tor you, baby,

That's all I'm going to say about it,

So that means trom now on

you'll be up there nights, right?

You'll be there

almost every night, right?

So,,,

You know, the other guys

are married, too, you know,

and they have those things,

I know,

Well, I'll take the day shitt

and you take the night shitt,

Honey, you're making it

very hard on me, baby,

You want me to take this,

and I'm gonna throw it against the wall,

I'm gonna smash it

into a million pieces,

That what you want me to do?

Because that's what

you're telling me to do,

This is the most important thing

to me besides you, you understand?

And it I can't do this,

then I'm not good tor you,

and I'm not good tor anybody, baby,

You understand?

Paul Wilson called up,

and he said he had, uh,,,

He's opening tomorrow night

at the Up Club,

Yeah, I know,

So he wanted us to come,

I said, you know,

probably we will,

- Oh, I'd love to,

- Would you?

Yeah,

Spend some time together,

lt'd be good,

- See the tellas,

- Yeah,

You know how depressed

Ellen's been lately?

I thought maybe we could

introduce her to Artie Kirks,

Artie Kirks?

Yeah, the record producer

I told you about,

Now, look, maybe it,,,

That's another thing,

it you want to go by yourselt,

possibly you and Ellen,

because ot business reasons,

that's okay,

I don't object to that,

and I could meet you later,

that's all,

I didn't mean it like that,

I'm sorry,

Is it okay?

Yeah, it's okay,

Right,

Oh! Wait till I show you

what I got!

Look at this,

Don't worry about it,

Oh, honey,

You were looking at the words

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