Russell Malone
Electric Guitar Solo on
A Blossom Fell

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Russell Malone's electric guitar solo is the sole improvisation on this recording. Spanning 0.4 choruses of the 20-Bar form at a ballad tempo of 41 BPM in D♭, the solo runs approximately 47 seconds. The 20-bar form is an unusual structure that gives the composition a distinctive, non-standard quality, and Malone navigates it with the same naturalness he brings to more conventional forms. This recording of "A Blossom Fell" comes from Diana Krall's 1995 album All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio. Russell plays over the first 8 bars of the form. Russell Malone was 31 to 32 years old at the time of this 1995 recording.

Russell Malone was 31 to 32 years old at the time.