Essential Solos

[paul secor]

I received Mosaic Records Sunday Jazz Gazette and saw this:  https://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/
I was familiar with some of the solos (though no doubt not familiar enough), some are not to my taste, and others I had never paid attention to.
The article presented me with music to listen to and think about.
Perhaps folks here will add some favorite solos of their own. Perhaps even some obscure ones.
(Apologies if this repeats a previous thread.)
I'll add a favorite of my own - one that's not so obscure. Pres on Billie's "I Must Have That Man".

 

[jlhoots]

Rollins: You Don't Know What Love Is

Bill Evans: Tenderly

[JSngry]

Everybody's.

Wayne here. not just the solo, but especially the solo, his attacks, dynamics, tonal manipulations, spacing of phrases, this is a master at work.

 

Lester and Nat here, individually and collectively.

 

Early imprinting - Phil Woods on these two, Zoot on the first I think I can still sing them,

 

[JSngry]

And to Linda Oh, for catching Oliver's magnificence as an improviser, nothing but the fullest love. The solo in question is one of the marvels of the 20th Centruy imo, seeing as how it asks and answers so many questions that now seem inevitable.

[jcam_44]

Agreed! Oliver's solo on Stolen Moments is magic.

 

My favorite solo of all-time is Gary Bartz on Misty from There Goes The Neighborhood. It gets me excited every time I hear it. It isn't a flawless solo by any means but it has so much joy in it. His mastery of time is incredible, plus he burns forever too. Its a ride man. I think its accentuated by the Kennys more sedated solo before it. The way he returns to the theme and flies away, so beautiful.

[Larry Kart]

Miles' pleading, storytelling solo on  the quintet version of "When Lights Are Low," with its occasional suggestions that Miles' melodic sense of  the time had a kinship with that of Richard Rodgers -- e.g. the way Miles exits the solo.
 

 

Pres' solo on "Taxi War Dance" (and Dickie Wells' solo too):
 

 

Monk's solo on "Little Rootie Tootie":
 

 

[soulpope]

Superb solos by Curtis Amy + Dupree Bolton back-to-back ....

[Larry Kart]

Art Pepper's solo on "Besame Mucho":
 

 

Sonny Rollins' "St. Thomas":
 

 

 

[Scott Dolan]

Oh man, Eric Dolphy’s solo on Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting from Mingus at Antibes. 

Coltrane on Afro Blue from Live At Birdland.

Ray Draper on Clifford’s Kappa from Ray Draper Quintet (featuring John Coltrane). 

[Larry Kart]

Paul Desmond's solo on "Blues In Time:"
 

 

Jackie McLean's solo on "Help":
 

 

Clifford Brown's solo on "I Can't Get Started":
 

 

Albert Stinson's solo on "My Joy" (begins at about 4:50):
 

 

Johnny Dodds on "Perdido St. Blues" (sober trumpeter George Mitchell too):
 

 

[soulpope]

43 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Albert Stinson's solo on "My Joy" (begins at about 4:50):
 

 

!!!

[soulpope]

The haunting solo by Clifford Brown really hits the spot ....

[BillF]

Charlie Parker, "Warming Up a Riff"

Lester Young, "These Foolish Things"

Bud Powell, "Parisian Thoroughfare"

[Simon Weil]

Bud Powell, "It Could Happen To You" (alternate take).

[riddlemay]

Hank Jones' solo, which starts at about 2:25:

 

[paul secor]

Bud: "It Never Entered My Mind" - some of the most deeply felt music I've ever heard

 

[BillF]

Jimmy Yancey, "At the Window"

[Simon Weil]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

Bud: "It Never Entered My Mind" - some of the most deeply felt music I've ever heard

 

It's almost unbearably poignant (IMHO).

[paul secor]

35 minutes ago, Simon Weil said:

It's almost unbearably poignant (IMHO).

Your words speak more eloquently than mine.

[johnblitweiler]

Yes to Johnny Dodds and George Mitchell in "Perdido Street Blues."

AND Johnny Dodds in King Oliver's :Someday Sweetheart."

And Johnny Dodds in his "Hear Me Talking."

And Johnny Dodds in his 1938 "Melancholy" and Charlie Shavers too.

[Larry Kart]

Art Pepper and Warne Marsh on "All the Things You Are" (don't miss the exchanges toward the end):
 

 

[Larry Kart]

Oscar Pettiford (cello) on "Now See How You Are," with Mat Mathews:
 

 

Ira Sullivan (on tenor) with Red Rodney on "Ubas":
 

 

[soulpope]

Fred Hopkins solo (starting at 3.45) structured as survey of bass playing history .... 

[soulpope]

Milcho Leviev (starting at 4.20) ....

[soulpope]

Coltrane rides the wave - provided by Paul Chambers + Philly Joe Jones - perfectly ....