Stephen Riley
Tenor Sax Solo on
Israel

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Opening the solo section, this tenor sax improvisation spans ten choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium-up 185 BPM. Riley's interpretation honors the tune's cool jazz origins while bringing his own distinctive voice to the material, making this a compelling document of a modern tenor saxophonist engaging with a classic piece of the post-bop repertoire. Riley's tenor saxophone improvisation unfolds with an assured sense of melodic direction, each phrase building naturally on what came before. Following this solo, John Brown takes over on acoustic bass.

Stephen Riley was 31 to 32 years old at the time.