Ron Stout
Trumpet Solo on
Will

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Ron Stout opens the solo section with three choruses of trumpet on Matt Zebley's original waltz "Will," a flowing composition at approximately 182 BPM from Live at Moondog. The 36-bar form in C major unfolds in three-quarter time, and Stout's playing combines lyrical melodic sense with rhythmic buoyancy as he navigates the waltz feel. As the first of two soloists, his three-chorus statement establishes the performance's lilting character, the less common three-quarter time framework revealing a lyrical side of his trumpet artistry that the album's swing-based tracks may not fully showcase.

Ron Stout was 39 to 40 years old at the time.