Harold Land
Tenor Sax Solo on
Parisian Thoroughfare

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Harold Land's tenor sax solo is the first of four solos on this recording. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form in F at a driving 182 BPM with a swing feel, Land leads off the solo section with one chorus of tenor saxophone, his lines navigating the harmony with fluency and rhythmic assurance. "Parisian Thoroughfare" is a contrafact built on the chord changes of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," requiring the soloist to navigate a familiar harmonic framework with a different melodic identity. Harold Land was 25 to 26 years old at the time of this recording.

Harold Land was 25 to 26 years old at the time.