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Taking the 2nd solo, this trumpet improvisation spans three choruses of the 12-bar blues at an uptempo swing feel at 211 BPM. Brown follows with three authoritative choruses of trumpet, building intensity through inventive melodic development and the flawless technique that made every note he played ring with clarity and purpose. This is the longest solo on the recording in terms of chorus count, suggesting a featured role in the arrangement. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Situated between Harold Land's tenor sax solo and Richie Powell's turn on piano, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.
Clifford Brown was 24 to 25 years old at the time.
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