The broadcast closes with Charlie Parker's quintessential blues head at 221 BPM, featuring the session's most extended solo statements. Aldana delivers eleven choruses on tenor saxophone over the twelve-bar form, and Cohen matches with ten choruses on piano — twenty-one combined choruses of sustained blues improvisation spanning seven and a half minutes. The generous solo lengths give the closer the feel of two musicians feeding off each other's energy in an extended dialogue over Parker's familiar blues framework. Parker first recorded Billie's Bounce in November 1945 during one of the most significant recording sessions in jazz history, a date that also produced Now's the Time and Ko Ko. The tune's simple melodic hook over the twelve-bar blues changes has made it one of the most called heads at jam sessions worldwide. Ending the broadcast with this much sustained blowing gives the set a definitive, climactic conclusion.
