‎Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Acoustic Bass Solo on
Autumn In New York

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Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen's one-chorus acoustic bass solo is the second of three solos on this second take. Following Doug Raney's guitar chorus, Pedersen takes the 32-bar ABA'C form at 116 BPM in F, finding fresh ideas within the same harmonic framework he had navigated in Take 1. His eloquent melodic invention demonstrates the inexhaustible creativity that great improvisers bring to familiar material, and his solo maintains the settled, definitive quality that marks this version.

‎Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was 32 to 33 years old at the time.