Tamir Shmerling
Acoustic Bass Solo on
Yardbird Suite

About

Closing out the solo section, this acoustic bass improvisation spans two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up swing tempo of 180 BPM. The underlying chord progression is drawn from "Rosetta," making this a contrafact—a new melody composed over borrowed changes. This is the most concise solo on the recording, making every phrase count within a compact space. The 32-bar AABA form, a staple of the Great American Songbook, offers both structural clarity and ample harmonic terrain for improvisation. Coming after Takeshi Ohbayashi's piano solo, this is the final improvisation before the ensemble returns to the head.