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Joshua Redman tears through two choruses of tenor saxophone on Dizzy Gillespie's bebop anthem "Salt Peanuts" at a scorching tempo exceeding 330 BPM, a high-velocity tribute to the music's founding generation on his self-titled debut album. The piece is a contrafact based on the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm," reharmonized with a new melody. Redman's lines navigate the 32-bar AABA form in F with the precision and fluency that had already marked him as a player of exceptional ability. As the first of three soloists, his two choruses demonstrate that his generation could hold its own on this demanding material, connecting him directly to the bebop lineage while bearing his distinctly modern stamp.
Joshua Redman was 22 to 23 years old at the time.
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