This performance opens the quartet's six-tune live stream session, setting an energetic tone with Kurt Weill's theatrical standard taken at a medium-up swing tempo. The compact 16-bar form serves as a springboard for extended improvisation, with the two featured solos together accounting for most of the segment's nine-minute runtime. Lefkowitz-Brown leads off with a substantial twelve-chorus tenor saxophone statement spanning over four minutes, followed by Feifke's nine-chorus piano solo that nudges the tempo slightly higher. The generous solo lengths reflect the quartet's approach throughout this session of giving each member room to stretch. As the set opener, the tune establishes the group's energy and interplay before they shift into a contrasting Latin-feel rendition of "Caravan." The tune has a long history as a jazz blowing vehicle, cemented by Sonny Rollins's landmark 1956 instrumental reading on Saxophone Colossus that established it as a framework for sustained improvisation. Lefkowitz-Brown's extended workout here follows in that tradition, with the quartet — rounded out by Dan Chmielinski on bass and Bryan Carter on drums — maintaining a driving rhythmic foundation underneath.
