Tommy Flanagan
Piano Solo on
Mac The Knife

About

Taking the 2nd solo, this piano improvisation spans four choruses of the 16-bar form at a medium-up swing tempo of 165 BPM. Situated between Sonny Rollins's tenor sax solo and Max Roach's turn on drums, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Tommy Flanagan was 25 to 26 years old at the time.