Stan Getz
Tenor Sax Solo on
Scrapple From The Apple

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Stan Getz contributes four choruses on tenor sax, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at a brisk swing tempo of 259 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in F, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. The tune is a contrafact based on the chord changes of "Honeysuckle Rose," a familiar harmonic foundation that invites inventive melodic exploration. Stan Getz follows with four equally brilliant tenor saxophone choruses, his silvery tone and rhythmic sophistication bringing a different but complementary perspective to the same changes. Recorded for the album Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi in 1957, the performance captures Stan Getz at 29 to 30 years old.

Stan Getz was 29 to 30 years old at the time.