Clyde Hart
Piano Solo on
Red Cross

About

Clyde Hart's piano solo is the second of three improvisations on this recording, following Parker's alto saxophone. Taking one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form in B-flat at 215 BPM, Hart navigates the rhythm changes with the transitional style that characterized his playing. His solo contributes to the performance's historical significance as an early document of the bebop movement's emergence from the swing tradition.

Clyde Hart was 33 to 34 years old at the time.