Sonny Rollins
Tenor Sax Solo on
Pent-Up House

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Sonny Rollins's tenor saxophone solo is the second of four improvisations on this recording, following Brown's trumpet. Taking six choruses of the 16-bar form in G at 188 BPM, Rollins stretches out over his own composition with the thematic development and rhythmic ingenuity that defined his playing during this period. His extended solo on this jam session staple is a study in motivic improvisation, ideas introduced in early choruses recurring in transformed guises as the solo unfolds.

Sonny Rollins was 25 to 26 years old at the time.