The tempo drops to a moderate 136 BPM for Victor Young's romantic ballad, providing the session's most relaxed moment. Sheppard returns to tenor saxophone and delivers four choruses over the 32-bar ABAB' form, with Robaire adding a two-chorus bass solo. The nearly nine-minute performance lets both players develop ideas at a more conversational pace after the high-energy playing that dominated the first three tunes. Young composed the piece as a romantic ballad, and while it's less frequently called on jazz sessions than many Great American Songbook standards, its gentle chord movement and lyrical melody reward sensitive interpretation. The pianoless trio setting gives the bass a particularly important harmonic role at this slower tempo, as Robaire's walking lines define the chord changes without a chordal instrument to fill in the harmony. The set then shifts dramatically upward with Bill Evans's Funkallero.
