![]() “And note that I said your favorites,” I wrote in my pitch email. I asked JT contributors and top musicians to give me a list of between five and 10 improvised jazz solos they consider to be their favorites. That’s pretty much what this undertaking is about, as opposed to a countdown or a compendium of jazz’s received wisdom. It isn’t a canonical solo, by any means, but it’s on my short list of recommendations. And during those impeccable choruses, Robinson plays along the dividing line between roots music and bebop to thrilling effect: He’s got the comfort-food phrasing plus the deeper sense of harmony that allows him to unspool a narrative, with a cool, dry hollowbody tone that makes his showier licks stand out in sharper relief than if he were plugged into an overdriven Marshall. As you might deduce from the album’s title, the music is an exercise in smartening up simple forms and grooves. ![]() I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to Freddy Robinson’s perfectly designed guitar solo on “Good Time Boogie,” off John Mayall’s 1972 LP Jazz Blues Fusion, but it feels like a million.
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