The United States Copyright Office opens a formal inquiry into music streaming fraud and spells out, in a government document, how one fake play takes money from a real musician. Then New York, 1945: a label owner will not pay a songwriter, so the producer cuts off the take, and the record that comes out of it ends up in the national archive. | The Lead: The United States Copyright Office opens Docket No. 2026-6, a notice of inquiry into music streaming fraud, answering a letter from Representative Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin, and its own pages explain how a fake play diverts money from the owners of legitimately streamed works. Listen to This: Charlie Parker's "The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection" is on Craft Recordings' own store, and track five is "Ko-Ko," two minutes and fifty four seconds, with three more sides from the same afternoon scattered around it. The Bridge: New York, November 1945: Charlie Parker records as a leader for the first time, and the melody the label's owner would not pay for never makes it onto the record. On the Road: Snug Harbor in New Orleans marks what would have been Abdullah Ibrahim's ninety second birthday, with Birdland, the Jazz Showcase and the Catalina filling out the night. One More Note: October 9, 1939, in Hollywood: Charlie Barnet cuts "The Wrong Idea" and "The Right Idea" in the same afternoon, in the year his own hit on "Cherokee" put that tune in every musician's ear. | The Daily Quintet is an AI-crafted production, researched and checked by humans. Every listing you hear came from the venue or the festival's own organizer.
