Dudley Fosdick's 8 bar solo on "One Night" should qualify him as one of the most forward looking jazzmen of that time. His counter lines on the 1920 material show the roots of jazz improvisation in such contrapuntal thinking.
Absolutely. Gene and Dudley along with Loren McMurray, Johnny Dunn, Jimmy Lytell, James P. Johnson, Larry Shields, and a few others really deserve credit for breaking barriers for their pre-NORK/King Oliver/Kid Ory solo work, and helping to move jazz forward on record during this pivotal time
