Just Friends Tete Montoliu

Tete Montoliu – 1974

Tete Montoliu shines brightly on the 1974 Anthony Braxton album ‘In the Tradition’. His precise, percussive improvisations swing like mad and are at once hummable and challenging. 

https://youtu.be/aExEYsvfjNE
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Tete’s solos are full of inventive ways to play arpeggios. If you find phrases you like, try playing them in various keys. 
In this example the phrase from bar 24 is transposed around sections of the cycle of fourths.

This content is from David Sharp's Jazz for Piano, preserved as part of his musical legacy by the New York Jazz Workshop.