Wilbur Ware
Acoustic Bass Solo on
Trinkle Tinkle

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Wilbur Ware's acoustic bass solo is the closing of 3 solos on this recording, following Thelonious Monk's piano. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up 157 BPM with a swing feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 52 seconds. Wilbur Ware contributes a full bass chorus that demonstrates his adventurous harmonic sense and elastic rhythmic feel, qualities that made him Monk's preferred bassist during this period. Wilbur Ware was 33 to 34 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. Trinkle Tinkle is a 32-bar AABA composition written by Thelonious Monk, first recorded in December 1952 for the Prestige label.

Wilbur Ware was 33 to 34 years old at the time.