Carded!

A couple of months ago I presented a paper — "Nice Work: Jazz Agency and the New York City Cabaret Card, 1943-1967" — at the EMP Pop Conference. The abridged, edited-for-mainstream-usage version of the paper appeared in the May issue of JazzTimes, and can now be accessed online. There are a lot of interesting little historical details that didn't make the cut in this version, but I think it gets my basic point across. (Pictured above: Billie Holiday leaving a Philadelphia police station after her arrest in 1956.)

Comments

[Peter Pullman]

Mr Chinen:

I invite you to read my new biography, *WAIL: The Life of Bud Powell*, for its examination, in a scholarly appendix, of the complete history of the so-called cabaret card. It makes constant reference to NYC's Administrative Code and City Charter, as well as to the police regulations that arrogated all authority on the matter, over time.

While that part of *WAIL* is academic/scholarly, I think that you would find the body of the book easily readable -- engrossingly so. (There are a handful of reviews already, at Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's sites.)

Please visit my website, www.BudPowellBio.com and, if you like what you read of the book there, I can get you a review e-copy.

Thanks for your consideration.

Peter Pullman