Yasushi Nakamura
Acoustic Bass Solo on
The Back Beat

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Yasushi Nakamura takes two choruses of acoustic bass on Horace Silver's "The Back Beat," the first of two soloists on this tune from the Live From Emmet's Place session with Randy Brecker and Chad Lefkowitz-Brown. At approximately 173 BPM, Nakamura navigates Silver's 48-bar AAB form in E-flat with melodic clarity, his robust tone and rhythmic precision providing a compelling bass feature. His two-chorus solo brings the low instrument into the foreground as a lead voice, demonstrating the strong bass tradition that underpins Emmet Cohen's ensemble.

Yasushi Nakamura was 38 to 39 years old at the time.