Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
Tenor Sax Solo on
Scrapple From The Apple

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Opening the solo section, this tenor sax improvisation spans two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up swing tempo of 185 BPM. The underlying chord progression is drawn from "Honeysuckle Rose," making this a contrafact—a new melody composed over borrowed changes. Lefkowitz-Brown opens the solo section with two choruses of tenor saxophone, weaving through Parker's changes at a comfortable medium-up tempo around 185 beats per minute. The 32-bar AABA form, a staple of the Great American Songbook, offers both structural clarity and ample harmonic terrain for improvisation. Following this solo, David Meder takes over on piano.

Chad Lefkowitz-Brown was 27 to 28 years old at the time.