<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5742">No, not Davis, a trumpeter nevertheless, an Alabaman surnamed Copeland.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5840"><br></div><div>I was reminded of him by Clark Terry's reminiscence Steve Voce quoted.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5992">Copeland was white, and a friend of Erskine Hawkins' musicians.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5991">When the Erskine Hawkins band came north Miles Copeland liked to drop by.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5990">Some nights, he reported, he would play the intro to Tuxedo Junction.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5989">Apparently this duty was passed around the band's trumpeters, each one of</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5988">whom was sick of playing it. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5987"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5986">A photo of Miles Copeland was on British TV only the other night.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5985">Sitting in Beirut with Kim Philby and Philby's official British boss)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5984">(Philby's real boss was Moscow, of course).</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5983">Yes. Miles Copeland gave up ambitions to be a professional musician,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5982">and was eventually interviewed by a jazz journalist only because in the <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5981">subsequent decline he had ended up head of the CIA. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5980"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492247695496_5979">This story might be told to all young musicians.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Toodle-oo!<br></div></div></body></html>