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Jim Hall's electric guitar solo is the second of four solos on this recording, following Sonny Rollins on tenor sax. Spanning three choruses of the 32-bar AABA form in B♭ at a blazing 318 BPM with a swing feel, Hall matches the intensity with three choruses of fleet, harmonically inventive guitar, while Bob Cranshaw and Ben Riley each take two choruses, the bassist walking with unfailing swing and the drummer maintaining the form with crisp precision even at this extreme tempo. "The Bridge" is a contrafact built on the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm," requiring the soloist to navigate a familiar harmonic framework with a different melodic identity.
Jim Hall was 31 to 32 years old at the time.
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