Public Eye

The set's most expansive performance arrives with Roy Hargrove's blues, featuring all five musicians soloing across forty-seven combined choruses — the evening's longest and most intense blowing session. Iida leads with fourteen choruses on trumpet, Weiner follows with fifteen on tenor, Kreibich adds twelve on keyboard, Otto takes three on bass, and Jedynak closes with three on drums at a tempo that accelerates to 269 BPM. The thirteen-and-a-half-minute performance at 244 BPM has the energy of a cutting session, with the frontline players each stretching past a dozen choruses over the simple twelve-bar blues form. Hargrove composed Public Eye as a straightforward blues vehicle, and the quintet takes full advantage of its open structure for extended exploration. The marathon performance is the clear centerpiece of the set, positioned after the gentler first half and before a sequence of shorter second-half numbers.