Jonathan Michel
Acoustic Bass Solo on
Monk's Dream

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Jonathan Michel's acoustic bass solo is the third and final solo on this Standard Sessions recording of Monk's Dream. He takes one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at 149 BPM, following Chad Lefkowitz-Brown's tenor saxophone and Victor Gould's piano. The single-chorus bass statement rounds out the solo section with a concise improvisation over Monk's idiosyncratic harmonic structure. At 27 to 28 years old, Michel demonstrates the versatility required to engage with Monk's angular compositional language, maintaining melodic clarity and rhythmic definition throughout the form.

Jonathan Michel was 27 to 28 years old at the time.