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paul secor

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I received Mosaic Records Sunday Jazz Gazette and saw this:  https://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/
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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".

 

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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,

 

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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.

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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.

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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":
 


 

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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):
 

 

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