Another Boston bebop trumpeter. My mentor and friend Alan Dawson, also from Boston, used to jam with Joe Gordon, said they had so much fun together, never needed bass or piano. Joe died years later while sleeping alone in an abandoned house in L.A. that "caught on fire."
Reminds me of my Chet Baker autograph, signed in 1981. It reads, "Richard, you picked a hard way to go. Good Luck, Chet Baker"