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Here we are. Tips welcome.
Here's a tip-- clean these seats.
All right, let's go.
Uh, we can handle this, Columbo.
Hey, three in the hand is better than none in the bush.
Just stay here and don't get in any trouble.
I don't know why you still bother saying that.
That's the fastest I've gotten a cab in Harlem-- or anywhere. Almost makes me change my mind about wanting to sell the place.
Oh, you're the owner?
Uh-huh. You new?
No! I'm an opportunist.
Huh.
You can smell the history in this place.
Yeah, history smells like an old ashtray.
ashtray 灰皿
We're never gonna get a look at their financials if that's your attitude.
My attitude might not come into play. We're a couple of sore thumbs here.
sore thumb 場違い
All right, no FBI. Roll with me on this.
Oh, just once I'd love an explanation to follow that sentence.
We don't open till 7:00, gentlemen.
I know. Neal Craig-- Talent Management. This your place?
Mine and my brother's-- Delmon Wells.
And I'm with the label. Peter Billings-- Swing Low Sound.
You guys got a pretty good stable.
Well, thanks. I helped rebuild it.
So why are you here?
Well, we know you're also in the process of rebuilding. We thought we'd offer some fresh talent to draw crowds.
Fresh is code for young and fleeting, and this club doesn't do "American Idol."
fleeting つかの間の
You interested in classic acts?
Little less Lana del Rey--
More booker little resolving notes on his trumpet?
Which is what I booked for this Friday's reopening. Got me an old-school trio-- sax, drums, and an organ.
You could still use a singer.
Must be nice, running a club like that.
You want it, you can have it.
Well, if you're not into it, why are you reopening the club?
That'd be my brother. He ditches town for a while, comes back and declares us open for business.
ditch 見捨てる
Oh, you don't like to be told what to do.
That's right.
My mother leaves us a club I don't want, my brother leaves me to run it, meanwhile nobody cares I got a day job to worry about.
Oh, where's that?
TLC.
Taxi & Limousine Commission?
Ding-ding. 5V78. You lease this from Dusarque over at Gotham?
Yeah. You really know your cabs.
I can barely get one myself.
This game's rigged, man.
No, they... that's the reason they call it the Empire City.
You got to scrape where you can.
How do you scrape?
By taking joy in the one good thing about my job.
What's that?
Hiring cigar girls.
I've never heard of June Ellington.
No, but you've heard of her husband, Byron.
Byron Ellington, the trumpeter? Got a hell of a ride out of that last name.
He played with Don Byas back then. And June sang lead until Byron got sick.
You guys have piqued my interest, but, uh, we're a small operation. I can't just write a big check at the end of the night.
pique そそる
I'm sure we can work something out.
So why would a label let their artist work on the cheap?
I think what he means to say is--
Music isn't born in Madison Square Garden. It starts here, in clubs like this music has to come from somewhere to go somewhere.
Well, I handle the talent, but my brother keeps the books. We usually do a straight percentage of 65.
I think we can do better than a straight percentage for June.
And we still have to hear an EP before we settle on anything.
Won't be a problem.
Could I trouble you for a matchbook? It's for my wife. She's a big fan of this place.
Okay.
Thanks.
You should invite your wife for the reopening.
Thank you.
All right, I think we all got what we need here. We'll be in touch.
Okay. Looking forward to hearing that album.
What was that back there?
"Music isn't born in Madison Square Garden?"
El's weekly dissertation when she puts her Morgana King album on. Where the hell is Mozzie?
dissertation 論文
I don't know why you still bother.
So, you actually listen to me when I rant about something, huh?
rant わめく
Marriage is for better or for worse.
Uh-huh. You know, The Cotton Club brings back a lot of memories. When I first came to New York, I used to go there every Thursday night.
Why'd you stop?
They shut down. A lot of these old places do.
Yeah, it doesn't help the businesses when the owners are crooks.
Does that mean I don't get to go to the reopening?
If they're using the club to launder money, there won't be a reopening.
Don't lose hope-- it might take us past Friday to isolate the discrepancies in the books.
I know event venues. I could probably save you a few hours of work. Okay. Let's see. Okay. They have 30 tables, turnover an hour per table, here they have total attendance at 220. But see, they're only putting 300 linens to be washed. It should be well over 500.
Well, they could be reusing them to cut costs.
Yeah, or they could be padding the head count and tabbing an extra couple grand every night. That's my girl!
pad 水増しする
Oh. Can you nail 'em?
Not yet. These scams are nearly impossible to prove.
Smart.
Hey. My yellow girlfriend and I return with news.
Come on in.
Sure. Angelo recognized my taxi number. It's definitely him.
Yeah, and possibly his brother.
Then why the dillydallying? Arrest and return all the seized goods.
dillydallying グズグズする
Based on your observations and a laundry bill? Try again.
We need eyes on the operation, someone on the inside.
Hmm. Know any cute cigar girls?
Thanks, Toots.
I better not hear you laughing.
Oh, we're laughing with you, Toots.
Security guard by the stairs has got a metal detector.
Yeah. I wonder what that's about.
I got eyes on Angelo. He's headed downstairs with a briefcase.
See if you can follow him.
All right.
Hands.
Oh, nice.
What's this?
On the house.
Thank you!
Yeah!
I got to reload. Sorry-- earrings.
What's in it?
Nothing.
Angelo!
I said, "nothing." Damn beanie babies. What's the difference?
Don't patronize me then. I'm not asking for a kidney. How many times you expect me to do this without knowing what I'm doing?
patronize 上からモノを言う
Come on! Luke said he'll be here Friday at 8:30 to get the briefcase.
Friday's the reopening.
What? There's a "no swapping briefcases" rule?
I just don't want you getting into trouble.
Then help me out. Now, open the safe.
Angelo's selling another medallion.
And Delmon doesn't know anything about it.
So you're not coming on Friday?
I told you.
Dusty jazz acts ain't my thing.
Boss, did you get all that?
I did. See if you can get eyes on that safe.
I'll try.
I don't hear anyone. I'm going in.
Watch yourself.
You're the new girl.
Yeah, um, I was just--
Venturing someplace you got absolutely no business being.
Diana?
I'm sorry. I got lost.
Lost? That's not gonna hold.
No, but she knows that.
Well, there's two doors in that hallway. One goes to the humidor, and one goes to my office. Guess you didn't have trouble finding the humidor.
No. I, um-- I heard about your vinyl collection. I wanted to take a look.
So, you'll risk getting fired to come in here to see some dusty jazz acts?
If you're calling an original pressing of James Rushing a "dusty jazz act," then you and me got a problem.
You got some balls, girl. Spark me up one of those.
Smart. The apple and Eve. She couldn't resist.
Oh, now you help yourself to a Principito?
I'm officially jealous. Have you ever had a Principito?
No.
They're the reason why we have five senses.
What, you can hear them?
Light one up, and tell me it doesn't sing.
Well, I see you got the same good taste in music that you have in your cigars.
It's your record.
Naw, it's my mom's. I just get credit for not selling it.
You ever wonder where it comes from-- our need for music?
Well, it catalogues our memories. A record like that, it just puts you someplace.
Where's it put you?
The first time I heard Jimmy Rushing was not on wax. It was here.
You couldn't have been more than 7.
6-- I remember just sitting on a barstool, playing drums in my head like Jo Jones was onstage, which incidentally, can't be done. And my brother Angelo--
Yeah, he interviewed me.
He was 4 years old, man. He's running around, "Devil In His Eyes" wild. Arms flailing like he was underwater. I don't think he knew exactly what he was doing, but he knew what he was doing, you know?
Does he still know what he's doing?
Um, he's been flailing around a bit lately, but his heart's still in it. But I'll always remember him spinning around up there. That's why we need the music.
That's what you're trying to recapture with the reopening.
I figure if I can remind him of what he's missing, maybe he'll just keep his flailing on the dance floor.
You did a bang-up job with the place.
Good booze, best musicians alive...
Cigar girls.
Yeah, speaking of which, uh, isn't your break about up?
It is. Yeah. I hope what you're doing pays off.
Yeah. Me, too.