[Dixielandjazz] Miles -- who went bad

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

No, not Davis, a trumpeter nevertheless, an Alabaman surnamed Copeland.
I was reminded of him by Clark Terry's reminiscence Steve Voce quoted.Copeland was white, and a friend of Erskine Hawkins' musicians.When the Erskine Hawkins band came north Miles Copeland liked to drop by.Some nights, he reported, he would play the intro to Tuxedo Junction.Apparently this duty was passed around the band's trumpeters, each one ofwhom was sick of playing it.  

A photo of Miles Copeland was on British TV only the other night.Sitting in Beirut with Kim Philby and Philby's official British boss)(Philby's real boss was Moscow, of course).Yes. Miles Copeland gave up ambitions to be a professional musician,and was eventually interviewed by a jazz journalist only because in the 
subsequent decline he had ended up head of the CIA.  

This story might be told to all young musicians.
Toodle-oo!
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