On the recording, Coltrane performs intense and lengthy, though poorly recorded, solos.

In "South of the Border," Mr. Lovano took a rhythmic, intense solo, using just bass and drums to back him up: that's what the technology was for, hard blowing.

It was probably one of the most intense solo sexual experiences I've ever had, but that's when I moved my room downstairs where it is now.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "the emphasis is on intense solos and very free improvising.

An intense, richly textured solo for herself, the dance looked like an artistic statement of belief.

Yet her character managed to gain sufficient equilibrium to end this intense solo with a shrug.

Despite its title, the quietly intense solo seemed more like a meditation.

Mr. McPherson would play a solo that gradually became more intense, filled with sinewy twists and logical turns, coated in a warm, damp tone.

Mr. Davis's enthusiastic, ebullient personality set a tone for the quartet as he sat in their midst plucking or bowing intense, full-bodied solos on his bass.

They are performed sometimes a cappella, extending the guitar playing in subtle and intense "solos" accompanied often by hand-clapping or knuckles rapped on a table.