Mike Stern
Electric Guitar Solo on
No Notice

About

Mike Stern's electric guitar solo is the first of two solos on this recording, followed by Bob Berg on tenor sax. Spanning five choruses of the 12-bar Blues form in B♭ at a relaxed 96 BPM with a shuffle feel, Stern tears through five choruses of a 12-bar blues in B-flat, his overdriven guitar tone and aggressive phrasing recalling his acknowledged debt to blues-rock guitarists while maintaining jazz harmonic awareness. Stern's electric guitar improvisation combines melodic inventiveness with a distinctive tone, navigating the changes with both fluidity and rhythmic precision.

Mike Stern was 33 to 34 years old at the time.