GRGR(4) Mr Bird, he dead (long)

[Doug Millison]

At 12:20 PM -0700 6/15/99, nconaty at juno.com wrote a great post:
[snip]
>After all 1939 was the year Coleman Hawkins 'invented' the saxophone with
>his famous solo on 'Body and Soul'. Before that the trumpet was king of
>the band and sax solos were not significant enough for Bird to have
>something to rebel against.

'39 was also the year of the movies, Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, I
think, two movies that fit nicely into the surreal landscape of America
that TRP paints in GR.

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