Tivon Pennicott
Tenor Sax Solo on
In Walked Bud

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Tivon Pennicott contributes a single chorus on tenor sax, the second of 4 solos on the recording. Taken at a medium-slow swing tempo of 91 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in A♭, the improvisation proceeds with patient, unhurried deliberation. Tivon Pennicott follows with a tenor saxophone chorus that balances Monk's idiosyncratic melodic language with the saxophonist's own lyrical sensibility. Recorded for the album NY Standard in 2015, the performance captures Tivon Pennicott at 29 to 30 years old. In Walked Bud is a jazz composition by Thelonious Monk, written in 1947 as a tribute to his friend and fellow pianist Bud Powell.

Tivon Pennicott was 29 to 30 years old at the time.