Philly Joe Jones
Drums Solo on
When Your Lover Has Gone

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Philly Joe Jones's drums solo is the closing of 4 solos on this recording, following Paul Chambers's acoustic bass. Spanning half a chorus of the 32-bar ABAC form at a moderate 113 BPM with a swing feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 35 seconds. Philly Joe Jones closes with a half-chorus drum statement that demonstrates his flair for melodic, compositionally structured percussion improvisation. Philly Joe Jones was 32 to 33 years old at the time of this 1956 recording. "When Your Lover Has Gone" is a torch ballad composed by Einar Aaron Swan in 1931 for the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy, which helped propel the song to national hit status that year.

Philly Joe Jones was 32 to 33 years old at the time.