Ray Copeland
Trumpet Solo on
Epistrophy

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Ray Copeland's trumpet solo is the closing of 2 solos on this recording, following John Coltrane's tenor sax. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar ABCB form at a medium-up 175 BPM with a swing feel in D♭, the solo runs approximately 45 seconds. Ray Copeland follows with a trumpet chorus that handles the tune's demanding intervallic content with professionalism and poise. Ray Copeland was 30 to 31 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. Epistrophy is a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in 1941, originally titled Fly Right.

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