Billy Gardner
Piano Solo on
There Is No Greater Love

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Billy Gardner follows Charlie Rouse with one and a half choruses on piano, completing the solo section. Taken at a medium swing tempo of 111 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in F, the improvisation proceeds with patient, unhurried deliberation. Billy Gardner follows with one and a half piano choruses that bring a different energy to the proceedings, his playing more overtly swinging and blues-inflected than Rouse's measured approach. The solo appears on the 1960 album Yeah!, a significant entry in the artist's discography. Isham Jones composed the music for "There Is No Greater Love" in 1936, with lyrics by Marty Symes.