Pasquale Grasso
Electric Guitar Solo on
Del Sasser

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Pasquale Grasso's electric guitar solo is the sole improvisation on this vocalese performance of Sam Jones's jazz composition "Del Sasser." Taking a half chorus of the 64-bar AABA form in B-flat at a blazing 230 BPM, Grasso navigates the extended form with remarkable agility. The tune, a hard bop staple first recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1960, provides a challenging harmonic framework that Grasso handles with the fluency and precision that characterize his approach to the bebop tradition.

Pasquale Grasso was 31 to 32 years old at the time.