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George Morrow takes the sole featured solo on this intimate ballad performance of "These Foolish Things," a rare spotlight for the bassist within the Clifford Brown & Max Roach quintet's catalog. The horns lay out for the entire song as George plays the melody and then solos on the bridge out in double time. His half-chorus improvisation is richly melodic, his deep, woody tone singing through the AABA changes in E-flat with a lyricism more commonly associated with horn players. The gentle ballad tempo allows Morrow to display a side of his musicianship that the quintet's predominantly up-tempo repertoire seldom revealed. As one of the few recorded features for Morrow with this legendary group, the performance holds a special place in the Brown-Roach discography and serves as a welcome change of pace on an album dominated by faster material.
George Morrow was 28 to 29 years old at the time.
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