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Horace Silver's piano solo is the 3rd of 4 on this recording, spanning three choruses at approximately 227 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 32-bar ABAB' form and the key of E♭, the solo navigates the chord changes with purpose. The tune borrows its harmonic structure from "There Will Never Be Another You," a set of changes that generations of improvisers have used as a testing ground for new ideas. Positioned between Clifford Brown and Art Blakey, Silver bridges the conversation between the two. Composed by Horace Silver as a contrafact on "There Will Never Be Another You," the tune is taken at a driving tempo above 220 bpm in E-flat, with a 32-bar ABAB' form.
Horace Silver was 25 to 26 years old at the time.
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