The surprisingly rich tradition of the one-note solo.

An alternate recording of The Five Satins' "The Jones Girl" went viral when its abysmal sax solo—just a middle D squawked over and over and over—went viral. But it takes a surprising amount of history and music theory to understand how someone ended up recording this.

Ornette Coleman, Neil Young, Gyorgy Ligeti, and the surprisingly rich tradition of the one-note solo.

May 20, 2020

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