Cedar Walton
Piano Solo on
Au Privave

About

Cedar Walton wraps up the solo sequence with ten choruses on piano, the last of three improvisations. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 260 BPM over the 12-bar Blues in F, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Cedar Walton closes the solo sequence with ten piano choruses that match the intensity of his bandmates. Recorded for the album Spellbound in 1960, the performance captures Cedar Walton at 25 to 26 years old. "Au Privave" is a bebop blues head composed by Charlie Parker, first recorded on January 17, 1951, for Verve Records with a quintet featuring Miles Davis on trumpet.

Cedar Walton was 25 to 26 years old at the time.