Sonny Rollins
Tenor Sax Solo on
John S.

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Sonny Rollins's tenor sax solo is the first of two solos on this recording, followed by Jim Hall on electric guitar. Spanning 6.71 choruses of the 34-bar form in F at a blazing 277 BPM with a swing feel, Rollins tears through nearly seven choruses with the kind of relentless inventiveness that earned him his reputation as jazz's greatest spontaneous melodist, his lines cascading over the changes with breathtaking rhythmic variety. For some reason, Sonny Rollins ends his solo after 18 bars of his seventh chorus.

Sonny Rollins was 31 to 32 years old at the time.