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Too bad we don't see Briggs' whole body, but still, his interactions with the music!

Also, check under his name on YouTube and there's a clip of him as a kid dancing in a Stepin Fetchit short. It's brief, but wow -- it's like he's floating above the ground.

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Doesn't look like Maynard. Severinsen could have played that passage -- that is, he had the chops to do it -- but not of course if he's correctly identified as the trumpet soloist; and that jumble of boppish figures certainly sounds like Doc of the time. Might have been a guy named Tony DiNardi. The other candidates I see, looking at Barnet personnel of the time, are either the wrong physical type (Ray Wetzel, John Howell, Lamar Wright Jr.) or not capable of playing way up there (Rolf Ericson).

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yes, forgot that Doc was in that band - I rmember hearing one of his early solos and it was as awkward in a way that was almost a parody of bop trumpet, in the same way as his LATER solos with Carson were -

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