Michael Mayo
Voice Solo on
I Didn't Know What Time It Was

About

Michael Mayo takes the sole solo on this recording, improvising for three-quarters of the form on voice at approximately 161 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 36-bar AABA' form and the key of F, the solo navigates the chord changes with purpose. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" receives a stylistically distinctive interpretation on Michael Mayo's 2024 album Fly. The moderate pace allows the soloist to develop ideas with both rhythmic variety and melodic breadth. The classic standard, from the 1939 musical Too Many Girls, is performed at approximately 161 beats per minute in the key of F with a swing feel, connecting Mayo to the long tradition of jazz vocalists interpreting the Great American Songbook.

Michael Mayo was 31 to 32 years old at the time.