After two high-energy performances, the quartet downshifts to Michel Legrand's delicate waltz-like ballad at just 50 BPM. The AA'B form with its unusual 26-bar length gives the piece an asymmetric quality, and only two soloists are featured — Lefkowitz-Brown takes one chorus on tenor saxophone and Feifke follows with one on piano. The restraint mirrors the intimate character of the composition, which Legrand originally wrote in 1967 as a chanson before Bill Evans's celebrated 1977 album of the same name established it as a cornerstone of the jazz piano ballad repertoire. The ten-minute performance creates the set's most contemplative moment, a dramatic contrast with the thirty-four-chorus marathon of One Finger Snap that preceded it. The quiet, spacious reading allows Legrand's sophisticated harmonic movement to breathe before the energy ramps back up with the uptempo You and the Night and the Music.
