Kenny Drew
Piano Solo on
Sonnymoon For Two

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Kenny Drew's piano solo is the second of three improvisations on this recording, following Gordon's 28-chorus tenor saxophone marathon. Taking 22 choruses of the 12-bar blues in B-flat at 229 BPM, Drew delivers his own epic-length statement that matches the scale of the performance. His extensive blues improvisation moves through multiple phases of intensity and texture, his bebop vocabulary finding fresh applications within the fundamental blues framework across this remarkably sustained solo.

Kenny Drew was 38 to 39 years old at the time.