Stan Levey
Drums Solo on
Anything Goes

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Stan Levey wraps up the solo sequence with a quarter-chorus on drums, the last of three improvisations. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 277 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in F, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Levey solos over just the 8 bar B section in between Mulligan and Getz playing the head out. Drummer Stan Levey contributes a brief quarter-chorus solo that adds rhythmic excitement. Recorded for the album Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi in 1957, the performance captures Stan Levey at 30 to 31 years old. The rhythm section of Lou Levy on piano, Ray Brown on bass, and Levey on drums drives the performance with relentless swing.

Stan Levey was 30 to 31 years old at the time.