I got word that time that I could be in a jam session with Bird and Diz, and I walked two miles carrying my bass without gloves in ten below zero weather to the Ritz Hotel. It was a fine session. I remember a fellow named Red Cross taped the session. – Oscar Pettiford Pettiford is referring to the jam session in Chicago on February 15, 1943, recorded by Bob Redcross. Bird switched to tenor when he joined the Earl Hines Orchestra in December 1942, and I’m trying to make the case that he was influenced by Ben Webster at … Continue reading Parkeology 034: Brute Force Part Two