"What I like most about Doc's sound, and what IMHO he does better than anybody ever, is the range from second space G to G on the staff. ...BillBryant

Bill, at one time I echoed that description of yours about Doc from G - to G notes in the staff. But not in a long time..

Again - the clip is some wonderful romantic soloing by Doc, we all agree. And reject the following...if it seems to you to be irrelavant..

..Remember as a kid drinking a Coca Cola that had been in the sun too long and co2 had fallen off - but you were thirsty as hek and it was cold and it went down smooth and delicious anyway ? ..But flat. I tend to hear his sound a bit like that.. Clear sound, and there is great volume - but somehow, not thick enough at center in the way that MF and Harry were thick.....

...Perhaps it's a trivial point when you look at the larger picture of what a career and life are all about, I suppose. 'Phrasing'…and technique - is what affects people - more so than how vibrant the sound is at the center.

Fwiw, I was told a story about Betty Grable in the war years listening to various trumpet players come on radio. She remarked that almost all of them, "did not have something 'extra' to their sound that Harry did." I think she may have been referring to the same thing - with respect to a plethora of sound..