Remembering Ray Nance on his birthday! 🎺🎻🎤
The great Ray Nance (December 10, 1913 - January 28, 1976) was an expert trumpeter in the use of multiple mutes, including Wah-Wahs, cornestist, singer, dancer, violinist and showman, member of the Duke orchestra Ellington for 23 years; He entered the orchestra as a replacement for Cootie Williams, making his debut at the 1940 Fargo concert where we can appreciate his multiple musical facets, actively participating in the orchestra as a main soloist or as a companion in countless pieces written even exclusively for him. Until the year 1962, which marks the return of Cootie Williams (after a 22-year absence), Ray went from trumpet to cornet. He will stay one more year in the orchestra as a regular member, returning occasionally in 1965, 1966 and especially on Duke Ellington's last studio album from 1973, a collaboration with singer Teresa Brewer.
In his vast discography with Ellington he had many opportunities to demonstrate his showmanship with inspired solos, but above all he owes the original solo to the trumpet that we hear in Take The "A" Train (Billy Stayhorn) of 1941, which became in the main melody of the orchestra; As a curiosity since he left the orchestra, the soloist in Take The "A" Train was Cootie Williams, who played Nance's solo note by note.
I share with you the song for which I met Duke Ellington with the famous Ray Nance solo, in a version from 1962 (21 years after its original recording).
Remembering Ray Nance on his birthday! 🎺🎻🎤
The great Ray Nance (December 10, 1913 - January 28, 1976) was an expert trumpeter in the use of multiple mutes, including Wah-Wahs, cornestist, singer, dancer, violinist and showman, member of the Duke orchestra Ellington for 23 years; He entered the orchestra as a replacement for Cootie Williams, making his debut at the 1940 Fargo concert where we can appreciate his multiple musical facets, actively participating in the orchestra as a main soloist or as a companion in countless pieces written even exclusively for him. Until the year 1962, which marks the return of Cootie Williams (after a 22-year absence), Ray went from trumpet to cornet. He will stay one more year in the orchestra as a regular member, returning occasionally in 1965, 1966 and especially on Duke Ellington's last studio album from 1973, a collaboration with singer Teresa Brewer.
In his vast discography with Ellington he had many opportunities to demonstrate his showmanship with inspired solos, but above all he owes the original solo to the trumpet that we hear in Take The "A" Train (Billy Stayhorn) of 1941, which became in the main melody of the orchestra; As a curiosity since he left the orchestra, the soloist in Take The "A" Train was Cootie Williams, who played Nance's solo note by note.
I share with you the song for which I met Duke Ellington with the famous Ray Nance solo, in a version from 1962 (21 years after its original recording).
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Remembering Ray Nance on his birthday! 
The great Ray Nance (December 10, 1913 - January 28, 1976) was an expert trumpeter in the use of multiple mutes, including Wah-Wahs, cornestist, singer, dancer, violinist and showman, member of the Duke orchestra Ellington for 23 years; He entered the orchestra as a replacement for Cootie Williams, making his debut at the 1940 Fargo concert where we can appreciate his multiple musical facets, actively participating in the orchestra as a main soloist or as a companion in countless pieces written even exclusively for him. Until the year 1962, which marks the return of Cootie Williams (after a 22-year absence), Ray went from trumpet to cornet. He will stay one more year in the orchestra as a regular member, returning occasionally in 1965, 1966 and especially on Duke Ellington's last studio album from 1973, a collaboration with singer Teresa Brewer.
In his vast discography with Ellington he had many opportunities to demonstrate his showmanship with inspired solos, but above all he owes the original solo to the trumpet that we hear in Take The "A" Train (Billy Stayhorn) of 1941, which became in the main melody of the orchestra; As a curiosity since he left the orchestra, the soloist in Take The "A" Train was Cootie Williams, who played Nance's solo note by note.
I share with you the song for which I met Duke Ellington with the famous Ray Nance solo, in a version from 1962 (21 years after its original recording).
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