Josh Mellicker
Electric Guitar Solo on
Blue in Green

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Josh Mellicker's electric guitar solo opens the improvisation on this 2021 LA Jazz Connection performance of "Blue in Green." He takes five choruses of the compact 10-bar form at 94 BPM with a funk feel in D, an unusual rhythmic treatment of a composition typically performed as a gentle ballad. The 10-bar form cycles quickly, and Mellicker's five-chorus solo builds through varied approaches to the concise harmonic structure. He is the first of three soloists, followed by Michael Gurrola on acoustic bass and Danny Janklow on alto saxophone.

Josh Mellicker was 60 to 61 years old at the time.