Victor Goines
Tenor Sax Solo on
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

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Victor Goines contributes two choruses on tenor sax, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at a medium-up swing tempo of 155 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in G, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Victor Goines follows with two choruses of tenor saxophone, his full-bodied tone and rhythmic authority driving the performance forward with increasing intensity. Recorded for the album Standards Only in 2001, the performance captures Victor Goines at 39 to 40 years old. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" was composed by Duke Ellington in August 1931, with lyrics credited to Irving Mills.

Victor Goines was 39 to 40 years old at the time.