Junior Cook
Tenor Sax Solo on
Yeah!

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Junior Cook leads off the solos with two choruses on tenor sax, the first of three improvisations on the recording. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 289 BPM over the 56-bar AABA in E♭, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Junior Cook opens with two tenor saxophone choruses at a blazing tempo, his playing demonstrating the stamina and inventiveness that made him an ideal foil for Silver's compositions. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Junior Cook at 25 to 26 years old. Yeah! 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.