Tiny Grimes
Electric Guitar Solo on
Tiny's Tempo

About

Tiny Grimes's electric guitar solo is the third and final improvisation on this recording, following solos by Parker and Hart. Taking three choruses of the 12-bar blues in B-flat at 209 BPM, Grimes delivers a characteristic statement that reflects his roots in the swing guitar tradition. As the session leader, Grimes provides a contrasting voice to Parker's more harmonically advanced conception, his guitar work grounded in the blues-based vocabulary of the swing era.

Tiny Grimes was 27 to 28 years old at the time.