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CHARLIE (BIRD) PARKER
Born in Kansas City, Kansas 1920. Raised in Kansas City, Missouri. 1931 worked on alto
sax, played baritone horn in school band. 1935 left school, became involved with
narcotics. 1937-39 developed style, worked with Jay McShann, Lawrence Keyes and
Harlan Leonard. 1939 went to New York working at Clark Monroe's Uptown House. 1941
first recordings, met Dizzy Gillespie. Often sat in at Minton's Play House, worked with
Noble Sissle's bands. 1943 worked with Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie. 1944 went on the
road with Billy Eckstine, made first combo record date with Tiny Grimes for Savoy.
Worked in clubs along 52nd Street. 1945 went to California working with Gillespie at Billy
Berg's. 1946 committed to Camarillo State Hospital, returning to work after six months.
1946 worked for Norman Granz's JATP with Miles Davis, Red Rodney and Kenny Dorham.
1949 played at Paris Jazz Festival. March 1955 final public appearance at Birdland. Died
a week later.
STUART Z. PERKOFF
Born in St. Louis 1930. Educated in the Midwest. At 17 went to New York. Moved to
California; lived in Venice West. Wrote poetry and did art work. His books of poems
include: Suicide Poems, 1956 and Poems from Prison (Broadside), 1969. Included in The
New American Poetry anthology, 1960. Died 1974.
JACKSON POLLOCK
Born in Cody, Wyoming 1912. Spent youth in Arizona and Northern California. 1928
enrolled in Manual Arts High School. 1930 moved to New York, studied with Thomas Hart
Benton at the Art Students League. 1931 worked as lumberjack. 1932 took Benton's mural
painting class. 1936 worked in Siqueiros' workshop, using spray guns and air brushes.
1937 began treatment for alcoholism, entering a New York hospital for treatment 1938.
1942 did experiments in automatic writing with Motherwell. 1943 worked with Motherwell
on collages; first one-man show at The Art of This Century Gallery. 1944 worked
intermittently at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17. 1946 moved to Springs, Long Island.
1950 lived in New York at Alfonso Ossorio's house. 1951 Hans Namuth film of Pollock
painting, with music by Morton Feldman. One-man shows include: Art of This Century,
New York, 1943; Betty Parsons Gallery, 1948-51; Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1952-
58. Some group exhibitions: "Twelve Contemporary Painters," Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 1944; "Large Scale Modern Painting," Museum of Modern Art, 1947; "The
Intrasubjectives," Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1949; XXV Biennale, Venice, 1950. 1956
killed in an automobile accident, East Hampton, New York.161
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