[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2017; #105]
tracklist:
(1949) Bob Wilber + His Jazz Band feat. Sidney Bechet - Waste No Tears
(1953) Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins with Tiny Grimes + His Rocking Highlanders - Why Did You Waste My Time?
(1960) Don Ellis Quartet feat. Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Charlie Persip - Waste
(1964) The Mike Sammes Singers - To Wait for Love (Is to Waste Your Life Away) (Bacharach/David)
(1968) Otis Redding - A Waste of Time
(1976) Ivor Cutler - The Wasted Call
(1978) Ian Dury + The Blockheads - What a Waste!
(1980) Amina Claudine Myers Trio feat. Cecil McBee, Jimmy Lovelace - Wasted Life Blues
(1981) Charles Tyler Quartet feat. Earl Cross, Kevin Ross, Steve Reid - The Wasteland
(1982) Triston Palma + Roots Radics - Sandra (Drum + Bass Can't Waste)
(1988) M.C. Shan - A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
(1992) Pere Ubu - Wasted
(1999) Alexei Aigi + Ensemble 4'33" - Wasteland
(2000) Peter Blegvad, John Greaves, Chris Cutler, B. J. Cole - Waste of Time
total time: 62'46
Wasted by Lucky.
Cover photo from AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, NYPD Evidence Collection.
Article to cover photo issued in The Evening World, New York, N.Y., Wednesday, November 24, 1915:
"WORK OF ROBBERY ENDS WHEN PLUNGE TO DEATH
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Fall Through Elevator Shaft in Loft Building Discloses Attempted Burglary.
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ONE WAS AN ENGINEER.
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Police Believe That Valuables Would Have Been Stolen But for Tragedy.
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The discovery of the bodies of two men locked together in death embrace at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the loft building at No. 129 West Twenty-seventh Street was the tragic aftermath to-day of an attempt made last night to rob the establishment of the Wearwell Waist Company, on the fifth floor of the building. It is believed the two men accidentally plunged down the shaft to their death while loading the elevator with stolen silks.
One of the men, a negro, was Robert Green, thirty-one years old, who was employed in the building as an elevator man and caretaker. The other victim, a white man, was identified as Jacob J. Jagendorf, thirty years old, of No. 537 West One Hundred and Thirty-third Street. Jagendorf was engineer of a loft building at No. 115 West Twenty-seventh Street.
The police believe other men were engaged in a plot with Green and Jagendorf to rob the building, to which Green had easy access by means of his keys.
Green left the building at 7 o'clock last night, after closing and locking it. According to Robert Diolen, elevator boy in the building whore Jagendorf was employed, the latter sent him late in the afternoon to Green with a brace and bit and a chisel.
That the burglars had made considerable progress before the fatal accident was shown by the fact that in the elevator were piled fifteen bolts of silk taken from the waist concern on the fifth floor. The police believe that as the men were loading the elevator in the darkness it suddenly went up of its own accord and without their knowledge, stopping where it was found above the tenth floor. Green and Jagendorf, according to this theory, stepping, as they supposed, into the elevator, plunged instead into space and fell five floors to their death. It was then, according to the police theory, that their accomplices closed the open door and fled in terror."
Dedicated to all garbage collectors.
