Miles Davis
Trumpet Solo on
Embraceable You

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Miles Davis closes out the solos on trumpet with three-quarters of the form, following Charlie Parker at approximately 70 BPM. Set within a ballad setting, the 32-bar ABAC form and the key of F, the solo allows for nuanced, expressive phrasing. Coming last in the solo order, Davis has the task of building on everything that came before while steering the performance back toward the closing head. Miles Davis follows with a three-quarter-chorus trumpet solo in a more openly lyrical vein. To shorten the tune, Miles jumps to bar 9 of the form following Bird's solo and plays to the end without ever playing the actual melody.

Miles Davis was 20 to 21 years old at the time.