Clovis Nicolas
Acoustic Bass Solo on
You Are Too Beautiful

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Clovis Nicolas's acoustic bass solo is the second of two solos on this 2020 duo performance of Richard Rodgers's "You Are Too Beautiful," following Julieta Eugenio's tenor saxophone. He takes half a chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at 59 BPM in C, bringing the seasoned perspective of a 44 to 45-year-old veteran to this intimate ballad setting. The duo format allows Nicolas's warm, full tone and melodic sensibility to be heard clearly, his bass lines providing both harmonic foundation and lyrical improvisation in equal measure.

Clovis Nicolas was 44 to 45 years old at the time.