Howard Roberts
Electric Guitar Solo on
Milt's Tune

About

Howard Roberts's one-chorus electric guitar solo is the fourth of five solos on this rhythm changes contrafact. At 237 BPM over the 32-bar AABA form in B-flat, Roberts demonstrates his facility with the bebop vocabulary on an instrument more commonly associated with other jazz idioms. The tune is a contrafact based on the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm," and Roberts's clean articulation and melodic logic show his command of this harmonic territory, his guitar bringing a distinct timbral quality to the sequence of horn and keyboard solos.

Howard Roberts was 25 to 26 years old at the time.