Eric Alexander
Tenor Sax Solo on
Billie's Bounce

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Closing out the solo section, this tenor sax improvisation spans three choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium-up 179 BPM. Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander closes the solo section with three commanding choruses, circling back to the saxophone tradition from which the composition originated. Alexander's tenor saxophone improvisation unfolds with an assured sense of melodic direction, each phrase building naturally on what came before. Coming after Harold Mabern's piano solo, this is the final improvisation before the ensemble returns to the head.

Eric Alexander was 45 to 46 years old at the time.