The Parker tribute closes with this classic bebop contrafact on I Got Rhythm changes, taken at a commanding 240 BPM. As the set finale, the performance pulls out all stops — Lefkowitz-Brown delivers seven choruses on tenor saxophone, Feifke follows with five on piano, and drummer Bryan Carter returns for a three-chorus drum solo, his second featured spot of the session. The ten-minute closer mirrors the opener Confirmation in tempo and energy, bookending the program with high-intensity bebop while the middle tunes explored Latin feels, ballads, and blues. Parker first recorded Anthropology in 1946, and along with Donna Lee it became one of the defining contrafacts of the bebop era. The rhythm changes foundation — shared with dozens of other jazz compositions — makes it a universal blowing vehicle, and the quartet treats it as exactly that, with the three soloists stretching out in an extended final statement before closing the tribute.
