Favorite Solos

[nmorin]

Miles', Wayne's, and Herbie's solos on "Circle". As close to perfection as I expect I'll hear.

[Cali]

Mobley's solo and Wynton Kelly's solo on "So What" from Miles @ Carnegie Hall.

Trane's solo on "Out Of This World" from COLTRANE (Impulse!).

Dexter's solo on "Willow Weep For Me" from OUR MAN IN PARIS.

(Also, Trane's "Teo" solo)

Edited August 26, 2005 by Cali

[connoisseur series500]

Some great greazzy solos:

Lonnie Smith's solo on "Sunshine Superman" from "Move your hand" live cd.

Jimmy Smith's solo on 'Got my Mojo Working" from the cd of the same title.

[Quasimado]

Warne Marsh *Live at Dana Point* on VSOP:

- The Things I love

- Dahoud

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[brownie]

Johnny Hodges 'Warm Valley' (Duke 1940)

Lester Young 'These Foolish Things'

Tony Fruscella 'Blue Lester'

Louis Armstrong 'Cornet Shop Suey'

Django Reinhardt 'Tears'

Clifford Brown 'Jor-Du' (the concert version)

Bird 'Embraceable You'

...and so many more...

[MartyJazz]

Ten among the very many that come to mind:

Charlie Parker: "Koko" (Christmas '49, Carnegie Hall;)

Dizzy Gillespie: "A Night in Tunisia" (Feb '61, Carnegie Hall, Verve)

Clifford Brown: "Brownie Speaks", ('53, Blue Note)

John Coltrane: "Blues Minor" ('61, Impulse)

Sonny Rollins: "Street Runner With Child" ('66, Impulse)

Eric Dolphy: "Mysterious Blues" ('60, Charles Mingus - Candid)

Dexter Gordon: "The Maze" ('62, Herbie Hancock - Blue Note)

Sam Rivers: "Fuchsia Swing Song" ('64 Blue Note)

Thelonious Monk: "Evidence" (May '63, Japan TV quartet performance - to see it especially is to know what jazz is all about)

Joe Henderson: "Blue Bossa" ('71 live in Tokyo, Milestone)

Edited August 27, 2005 by MartyJazz

[BeBop]

Wardell Gray on Benny Goodman's "Hucklebuck". Yes, I'm serious. Wardell says: Take That!

[clifford_thornton]

Anthony Braxton's contrabass clarinet solo on Jacques Coursil's "Black Suite" (America) always messes with me. Soulful, tortured, and almost completely unaccompanied.

[Guy Berger]

Trane's solo on "Out Of This World" from COLTRANE (Impulse!).

Which solo -- the first one or the second? (They're both phenomenal, but maybe you have a preference.)

For those who are interested we've had threads on the greatest Coltrane and Wayne Shorter solos. Not sure how many of these are overlooked.

Guy

[CJ Shearn]

some of mine:

Herbie on "Succotash" (Inventions and Dimensions)

Dexter and Donald Byrd on "Tanya"

Horace Silver on "Wee Dot" (alternate take)

Pat Metheny "Are You Going With Me?" (any version), "Third Wind" (Still Life), "Question and Answer (out chorus solo from "Trio Live")

Lyle Mays "First Circle" (The Road to You)

Jimmy Smith "The Boss"

Joe Gloss "Tenderly" and "Pre Dawn Rain"

Pat Martino "All Blues" (Live at Yoshi's)

Bob Mintzer "Run For Your Life" (Yellowjackets: "Mint Jam")

Joey DeFrancesco "Rock Candy" (It's About Time)

Bennie Maupin "Speedball" (Live at the Lighthouse)

Joe Henderson "Round Midnight" (Live in Japan) "El Barrio" (Inner Urge)

Elvin Jones "A Night in Tunisia" (A Night at the Village Vanguard)

Jack DeJohnette "Two Folk Songs" (80/81)

Michael Brecker "Syzygy", (self titled) and "Every Day (I Thank You)" (80/81)

John Coltrane "Teo"

George Benson and Grover Washington "Rocksteady" (CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl)

Stanley Turrentine "Impressions" (Sugar)

[Cali]

Trane's solo on "Out Of This World" from COLTRANE (Impulse!).

Which solo -- the first one or the second? (They're both phenomenal, but maybe you have a preference.)

Guy

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Both!