Bill Evans
Piano Solo on
Cascades

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Bill Evans's piano solo is the second of two improvisations on this recording, following Hubbard's trumpet. Taking two choruses of the 56-bar AABA form in C minor at 252 BPM, Evans rises to the challenge of the extended form and brisk tempo with characteristic inventiveness. His two-chorus solo navigates the composition's unusual structure with harmonic imagination and rhythmic subtlety, the pianist's refined touch providing a lyrical counterbalance to Hubbard's more assertive trumpet statement.

Bill Evans was 31 to 32 years old at the time.