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BTW, who is the trumpet (cornet) soloist? I should know who it is, but can't quite place him. Herbie Jones?

Ray Nance.

Allegedly Duke fired Nance due to unreliability. Gonsalves remained!

Thanks. I should have known that was Nance, but it was stuck in my mind that he had left the band by '65. I believe that another reason Nance was let go was because he couldn't get along with Cootie Williams who had rejoined the band in the early '60's. I remember reading or hearing about a major blow-up the two of them had on stage on one of the Asian or Middle Eastern tours. One of them had to go and it wound up being Nance.

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My favorite part is that Gonsalves is upright throughout and has his tenor strategically placed so it kind of looks like he's playing if you weren't paying attention. How he doesn't fall over that stone cold asleep I'll never know. What a badass. Sleeping AND getting paid.

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