Transcription: Don't Cry, Baby

Composer: James P. Johnson
Transcription starts at 0'18"; ends at 0'25"
Tempo: 125 beats per minute
From the album: Basie Eckstine Incorporated
Leader of the session: Count Basie
Recorded: May 22, 1959
LP: Roulette SR59042

Freddie plays a two measure solo based on familiar guitar chord shapes. Though the solo could have been improvised, it sounds like a written solo, or a solo worked out beforehand.

Transcribed by Michael Pettersen, January 2006