Tatum Greenblatt
Trumpet Solo on
Ceora

About

Tatum Greenblatt follows Alexa Tarantino with three choruses of trumpet on "Ceora" at approximately 133 BPM, his warm tone and melodic sensibility well suited to Lee Morgan's bossa nova. The 32-bar AA' form in A-flat provides a graceful harmonic backdrop, and Greenblatt's three-chorus solo builds naturally from the character established by Tarantino's opening alto feature. His playing in the bossa nova context reveals a lyrical side of his trumpet artistry, each phrase shaped with attention to the composition's gentle rhythmic pulse. As the second of three soloists, his extended statement provides ample room for development before Emmet Cohen's closing piano solo.

Tatum Greenblatt was 38 to 39 years old at the time.