1947
...those days I went into Georgie's Auld club (in Tin Pan Alley in the Hotel Maxwell*). Bird always said, " I'm coming to see you." Bird always said he's gonna come sit in, but he never did. With me, for some reason, he did twice. He came down to Georgie's place, and he sat in. Everybody heard - in those days, rumors gor out he's coming in - and the place would be mobbed. You couldn't get in the joint. I had Harry Biss, Phil Arabia and Louis Barrero, the bass player. Tony Scott was in the club, he's gonna sit in with us. And Tony had more nerve than anyone in those days.
*48th St between Broadway and 8th Ave
( from: Swing to Bop by Ira Gitler -p.223 - Oxford 1985)