Soldier[? ], and I'm his drummer. Then, after that gig, we went to across the street from the Three Deuces. The name had changed from the Onyx Room to the Orchid Room. You know that. You got that already. It's Bud Powell, Nelson Boyd, myself, Sonny Stitt, and I think maybe Miles. We're burnin'. That's where Max Roach had come to ask me to replace him with Bird. I didn't say yes or no. I didn't say no "Yeah, man. " He came back. He said, "If you don't want to make it, I'll get Kansas Fields. " So I say that on t.v. And they both start laughing. Dizzy Gillespie was saying, "Yeah, there was always Kansas Fields there. " There was another drummer named Jack the Bear - Jackie Parker. They would always get - if they needed a drummer, it was either Kansas Fields or Jackie Parker. They all could swing, these guys in Harlem, wherever. So they started laughing at that, because they knew it was true. Then Bird comes over himself, maybe the next night, and asks me himself to join his band, 1949, September or October.