Felix Fox-Pappas
Piano Solo on
A Moment

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Taking the 3rd solo, this piano improvisation spans two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form at an uptempo 215 BPM. The underlying chord progression is drawn from "I Got Rhythm," making this a contrafact -- a new melody composed over borrowed changes. Pianist Felix Fox-Pappas takes two choruses of his own, bringing pianistic fire to the well-worn changes. Fox-Pappas's piano solo draws on the post-bop tradition, deploying well-voiced chords and single-note lines that navigate the harmonic terrain with both precision and swing. Situated between Caity Gyorgy's voice solo and Jacob Wutzke's turn on drums, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.