At night we arrested Gerry and I were driven back home. Gerry but I went down with straps to the back of the house and confusedly gave them the evidence they sought. Until then could only charge him because of the surge marks. We were booked, detained for an hour and finally released on bail - except Gerry. We claim innocence at trial and won - except Gerry. It looked like he was there and a sudden was gone. Have not seen for six months.
He never tried to contact me or wrote a single letter from prison there. Although using heroin, Gerry did not fail to successfully manage their music and their small group was fine. The sound we made was too good some nights, a completely different sound, without the piano. We recorded several albums during the season at Haig Mulligan Quartet: many for Pacific Jazz and one or two for the Fantasy. In retrospect it seems incredible that we have been together so long. Gerry won first place in the referendum in Down Beat and Metronome, the category of barite sax and me on trumpet when he was gone. Then I began to be leader of the band, making music director Russ Freeman and Bob Neel hired to play drums.
Chico on the left to form his own group, but were Larry Bunker on drums and Carson on bass. We recorded some LPs for Pacific Jazz: Instrumental quartet. With vocal quartet, vocals Russ Freeman, Shelly Manne and strings. We introduce ourselves as a sextet with Shelly, Russ, Brookmeyer and Bud Shank as octet - with those already mentioned, but Jack Montrose and Bob Gordon. I recorded an album for Columbia (arranged by Rogers and Marty Paich Garden) with Zoot Sims, Bud Shank, Shelly, and Russ Mendragon with the strings produced by George Avakian for Dick Bock. Dick Bock is one of the best subject I found this business since I started playing for over thirty-five years.
One afternoon, six months after those events, was going down to Hollywood Boulevard and saw Gerry and Arlene Brown. I did not like her astral face. It seems that Gerry was divorcing Jeffie and planned to marry Arlene - which to me was like heaven in a second and the next second, in hell. Arlene was a petite Jewish woman - was not attractive and gave the impression he would get fat soon. of course I did not know what was going on in her head. Gerry must have given something he needed, but thinking only in term physical, Jeffie was sweet and beautiful, while Arlene was a nuisance.
We talked right there on the street for a few minutes and ended up saying she wanted to work with Gerry again - the club, concerts, no matter where and how - but it required three hundred dollars a week. "Not much money in the current circumstances" - spliced. The two started laughing thinking it was too much money. I said goodbye to Gerry and wished him good luck and sent me. Only after some time I saw him again.
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