Johnson's inventive soloing is especially well-featured on "Honeysuckle Rose, " done on a quartet session in 1937.

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It features trombonist Steve Davis soloing before the pianist tackles his own congeries of chord changes.

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Free climbing (as opposed to free soloing) is what I usually do, using protection and rope only as safeguards.

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The ensemble's writing and playing, the soloing, the precision, the inspiration, and the energy all help make this an ensemble to be heard.

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If free soloing (using only rock shoes, without the protection of a rope) is the purest form of climbing, then aid soloing is the slowest, most cumbersome kind one can imagine, mixing, as it does, terror and tedium.

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"We're walking away from an unnatural civilized world, which has become normal, and we're walking back into the most dramatic and potentially dangerous parts of the natural world, " said Doug Ammons, a legendary kayaker, best known for soloing the treacherous Stikine River in Canada.

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