Clifford Jordan
Tenor Sax Solo on
Au Privave

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Clifford Jordan contributes fourteen choruses on tenor sax, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at a brisk swing tempo of 257 BPM over the 12-bar Blues in F, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. "Au Privave" is a Charlie Parker blues composition that serves as the closing track on Clifford Jordan's 1960 Riverside album Spellbound. Recorded for the album Spellbound in 1960, the performance captures Clifford Jordan at 28 to 29 years old. Jordan follows with a massive fourteen-chorus tenor saxophone solo, a tour de force of blues improvisation that builds with relentless logic from simple melodic ideas to complex harmonic explorations.

Clifford Jordan was 28 to 29 years old at the time.