Sonny Rollins
Tenor Sax Solo on
Blue 7

About

Opening the solo section, this tenor sax improvisation spans five choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium swing tempo of 134 BPM. The collective interplay between the three soloists creates a performance that functions almost as a suite, each musician's contribution building upon and extending the others'. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Following this solo, Tommy Flanagan takes over on piano.

Sonny Rollins was 25 to 26 years old at the time.