Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Was he actually reading that? It sure looked like it was on the sheet music......

It did look like it and with a big band he may need to keep the cues tight for the other musicians to know when to come back in. Some drummers certainly can and do read like that.

I guess it could have been a lead sheet with cue notes, though one would think he'd likely just count that.


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