Sadik Hakim Reminisces About Pres and Bird

[Dan Gould]

Sadik Hakim is someone who has popped up a few times in the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection, backing George Kelly and Percy France among others, so I went googling and found this.

 

Sample graf:

I did work a gig with Bird in Chicago.  For a while we played at the Sherman Hotel with Hot Lips Page opposite Boyd Raeburn’s Big Band.  The second day of the gig, we couldn’t find Bird at all for the second set. We went up to our suite in the hotel, where we found Bird out cold in the bathtub.  We got him together, he came down, and his playing just scared everyone to death. Charlie Ventura was with Raeburn’s band. The more Bird played, the paler he got.

 

From Jazz Journal International [London], Vol. 49, No. 8, August 1996, pp. 16-18, 35. 

[Brad]

Terrific stuff. Thanks for posting this Dan. 

[Niko]

Thanks!