Junior Cook
Tenor Sax Solo on
Horace-Scope

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Junior Cook contributes two choruses on tenor sax, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 195 BPM over the 16-bar form in D♭, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Junior Cook follows with two tenor saxophone choruses that bring a harder edge, his playing more assertive and blues-drenched. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Junior Cook at 25 to 26 years old. Horace-Scope is a jazz composition by Horace Silver that served as the title track for his 1960 Blue Note album of the same name. "Horace-Scope" is the title track of Horace Silver's 1960 Blue Note album, a characteristically inventive Silver original with a compact 16-bar form in D-flat.

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