Steven Feifke
Piano Solo on
Green Dolphin Street

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Closing out the solo section, this piano improvisation spans four choruses of the 32-bar ABAB' form at an uptempo swing feel at 216 BPM. Pianist Steven Feifke joins Lefkowitz-Brown for what amounts to the most expansive pair of solos in the early Standard Sessions catalog — each musician takes four full choruses of the 32-bar ABAB' form at a medium-up swing tempo around 210 beats per minute. The 32-bar ABAB' form, with its contrasting sections and modified return, provides a balanced structure for melodic development. Coming after Chad Lefkowitz-Brown's tenor sax solo, this is the final improvisation before the ensemble returns to the head.

Steven Feifke was 26 to 27 years old at the time.