Kenny Drew
Piano Solo on
Stablemates

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Kenny Drew contributes two choruses on piano, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 198 BPM over the 36-bar ABA in D♭, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Kenny Drew follows with two piano choruses of sophisticated bebop improvisation, his playing both technically assured and harmonically inventive as he navigates the tune's complex chord progressions. Recorded for the album Chambers' Music in 1956, the performance captures Kenny Drew at 27 to 28 years old. Golson himself explained that "the meat of it's in the intervals, what follows what," highlighting the sophisticated voice leading that distinguishes the composition.

Kenny Drew was 27 to 28 years old at the time.