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Herbie Hancock wraps up the solo sequence with a single chorus on piano, the last of three improvisations. The waltz feel at 167 BPM over the 64-bar ABAB' in B♭ lends the solo a distinctive lilting three-beat pulse. Herbie Hancock's piano chorus completes the solo sequence with inventive chord voicings and melodic ideas that reharmonize the composition in real time. Recorded for the album Speak No Evil in 1964, the performance captures Herbie Hancock at 23 to 24 years old. The composition features a lyrical, flowing melody over sophisticated harmonic language that blends diatonic accessibility with advanced substitutions, including tritone replacements, altered dominants, and modal interchange.
Herbie Hancock was 23 to 24 years old at the time.
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