Oliver Nelson
Alto Sax Solo on
Teenie's Blues

About

Oliver Nelson's alto saxophone solo is the second of four improvisations on this recording, following Dolphy's opening statement. Taking four choruses of the 12-bar blues in F at 134 BPM, Nelson switches from his usual tenor to the alto, his playing on this horn carrying a different tonal weight while maintaining the structural logic that characterized all his improvising. The four-chorus statement allows him to develop ideas at length over the blues form, his arranger's ear shaping a solo of considerable coherence.

Oliver Nelson was 28 to 29 years old at the time.