I´ve been doing some research on Blue Bikini and noticed that Callender (bass player) doesn´t have a solo at all. So maybe Blues Bikini is not the right song, although it corresponds to the 44-bar AABA song in which the A section is 12 and the B section 8 bars, which makes 3 times 12 plus 8 = 44. Dexter Gordon (Tenor Saxophone) takes two choruses in which he display a lyrical approach to the theme-melody. Then Jimmy Bunn, the pianist takes over for 1 chorus of 48 bars (!). After 24 bars (2 A´s) his solo changes in the B section and all of the sudden you hear some sparse and lingering notes. The peculiar thing is that his B section turns out to be 12 bars, followed by yet another 12 (the last A section). In the 4th chorus Gordon comes back for two A´s and Thompson (on drums) fills in the B section of 8 bars, remarkably laid-back, after which Gordon ends the tune with the last 12 bar song A section.

A remarkable song from Dexter Gordon, a remarkable Saxophone player who, as Gene Lees once wrote, lost part of his magic when he moved to Europe.

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