Ray Copeland
Trumpet Solo on
Off Minor

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Ray Copeland's trumpet solo is the second of 4 solos on this recording, following Coleman Hawkins's tenor sax and followed by Thelonious Monk on piano. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up 155 BPM with a swing feel in G, the solo runs approximately 52 seconds. Copeland follows with a trumpet chorus that navigates the tune's tricky intervals and displaced accents with care. Ray Copeland was 30 to 31 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. Off Minor is a composition by Thelonious Monk, originally titled What Now, written before 1947.

Ray Copeland was 30 to 31 years old at the time.