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Rickey Woodard takes six commanding choruses of tenor saxophone on his original composition "Sand Dance" at approximately 225 BPM, the most extended performance on his 1992 live album The Tokyo Express. Over the 32-bar ABAC form in B-flat, his big tone and swinging lines build steadily in intensity, drawing on the deep well of the blues tradition from honking rhythm-and-blues textures to sophisticated bebop chromaticism. As the first of three soloists, his six-chorus statement demonstrates his ability to sustain creative invention across an extended improvisation, each chorus adding another layer to a solo of remarkable energy and variety.
Rickey Woodard was 41 to 42 years old at the time.
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