Tommy Flanagan
Piano Solo on
I Never Knew

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Taking the 3rd solo, this piano improvisation spans two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form at an uptempo swing feel at 212 BPM. The 32-bar AABA form, a staple of the Great American Songbook, offers both structural clarity and ample harmonic terrain for improvisation. Situated between John Coltrane's tenor sax solo and Paul Chambers's turn on acoustic bass, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Tommy Flanagan was 27 to 28 years old at the time.