From page 23 you're playing this, don’t you tell them about it.’ Brown's high school physics teacher played saxophone. He offered Brown a job with a band and the young pianist soon found himself making $18 a night. “We were playing waltzes, Beer Barrel Polka, different things like that. We were playing for Italians. They were well-off and they had black people playing for them.” Brown eventually applied for a junior chemistry job that Uncie Sam put out for people who had finished college. “At that time race relations weren't too good there. | told the civil service if they could find me Apollo they shoot this gun to blow the guy off the stage when the penple don’t like you, he said, ‘This boy has won it already.’ ” Johnny Moore who had the Three Blazers was in the audi- ence on that night. So was Ivy Anderson, who used to sing with Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club. “Her husband was there. They had a place called Ivy's Chicken Shack on Vernon and Central.” It was the place to be seen for the black elite in Hollywood. Johnny Moore and Eddy Williams of the Three Blazers caught up with him and remem- dered him from the amateur show. They needed a piano play- er. They had a $600-a-week job Beverly Hills. One memorable adventure saw them at the Back Stage in San Francisco. “We met Billie Holiday up here. She was working some- where in the Tenderloin District. “Johnny Moore was hip to Billie Holiday, knowing who she was, | didn’t. He said, ‘Man | think that’s Billie Holiday sitting out there with those dark glasses on. We got to play something good.’ So we started playing a lut of love songs and stuff. “When we came off the stage and introduced ourselves she said, ‘You boys really played some beautiful songs.’ She said, ‘You young man, singing all of those love songs, you're going to be a great star some day’ — just soup or salad & $7. 05 specials of the day NOW YOU CAN ENJOY THE QUICKEST GOURMET LUNCH ON THE NORTH SHORE like that. And (tell the peopte a job in California because one fined up. now that I’m just waiting for that of my friends was out there in In 1944 the Blazers landed a Berkeley.” job at the Talk Of The Town in He took a job making some kind of “chemical mud.” But by the summer of 1943 he was itch- ing to play music professionally. He returned L.A. to work ina gospel church. “I was experienced in church playing but they didn’t have any music. You'd just have to start and ad lib and get behind them as they started singing. Sanctified ° people just start in any key and you've got to find out what key they're in and try to catch that. Meanwhile L.A. beckoned. A job as an elevator operator at the Broadway department store led to a lucky break. “On the fifth floor they had a music room where they sold -sheet music. I’d go up there and . listen to hear people play. “One day they were playing a song | was familiar with, Lulu’s Back In Town or something like that and | said, ‘You know | can play that.’ | got on this piano and played and jazzed it up a little bit for the lady who was buying the music. 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