Frank,
I heard Ira Sullivan on several of those Monday Nights at the Gate.
In recent years, Ira Sullivan formed a bebop group with Red Rodney. Do you remember Red Rodney? He was a white guy who played trumpet with Charlie Parker early on. When the combo was touring in the south, it posed a problem. Whites and blacks weren't allowed to perform together back then. So they passed Red Rodney off as an ALBINO! -- and it worked.

Red and Ira Sullivan both played the trumpet--and that was a problem. So Ira Sullivan taught himself on the spur of the moment to play saxophone. And he was great at it. They might still be playing together---I don't know.

There are several CDs of the two of them out as we speak. (made after 2000 or so)