Art Blakey
Drums Solo on
Off Minor

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Art Blakey's drums solo is the closing of 4 solos on this recording, following Thelonious Monk's piano. Spanning a quarter chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up 166 BPM with a swing feel in G, the solo runs approximately 14 seconds. Art Blakey closes with a brief quarter-chorus drum statement, his powerful attack adding an exclamation point to the proceedings. Art Blakey was 37 to 38 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. Off Minor is a composition by Thelonious Monk, originally titled What Now, written before 1947.

Art Blakey was 37 to 38 years old at the time.