Pasquale Grasso
Electric Guitar Solo on
But Beautiful

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Pasquale Grasso's electric guitar solo is the sole improvisation on this gorgeous ballad performance of the Jimmy Van Heusen composition. Taking a quarter chorus of the 32-bar ABAB' form in D-flat at a tender 69 BPM, Grasso offers a brief but exquisite statement. The ABAB' structure, subtly different from the more common AABA, presents a distinct harmonic landscape, and Grasso navigates it with the delicacy and musical sensitivity that the ballad context demands.

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