Kenny Drew
Piano Solo on
Eastbound

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Kenny Drew contributes two choruses on piano, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 268 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in C, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Kenny Drew follows with two piano choruses that match Coltrane's energy, his bebop vocabulary deployed with crisp precision and harmonic daring. Recorded for the album Chambers' Music in 1956, the performance captures Kenny Drew at 27 to 28 years old. "Eastbound" is a hard-driving Kenny Drew composition that closes the 1956 album Chambers' Music with blazing energy. Eastbound is an original composition by pianist Kenny Drew, recorded in 1956 for bassist Paul Chambers' album Chambers' Music on the Jazz West label.

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