Junior Cook
Tenor Sax Solo on
Me And My Baby

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Junior Cook contributes three choruses on tenor sax, the second of 4 solos on the recording. Taken at a medium-up swing tempo of 158 BPM over the 12-bar Blues in A♭, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Junior Cook follows with three tenor saxophone choruses that bring a grittier energy, his hard-edged tone and rhythmic drive pushing the performance forward. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Junior Cook at 25 to 26 years old. "Me and My Baby" is a hard bop composition by Horace Silver, written for his 1960 album Horace-Scope on Blue Note Records.

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