Junior Cook
Tenor Sax Solo on
Where You At?

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Junior Cook opens the solo sequence with three choruses on tenor sax, the first of 4 solos on the recording. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 276 BPM over the 24-bar form in A♭, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Junior Cook opens with three driving tenor saxophone choruses over a 24-bar form in A-flat, his muscular sound and bebop-rooted vocabulary holding their own at the demanding tempo. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Junior Cook at 25 to 26 years old. Where You At? is a jazz composition by Horace Silver, first recorded for his 1960 Blue Note album Horace-Scope.

Junior Cook was 25 to 26 years old at the time.