Sonny Clark
Piano Solo on
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

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Sonny Clark's piano solo is the closing of 2 solos on this recording, following Dexter Gordon's tenor sax. Spanning a quarter chorus of the 36-bar AABA form at a ballad tempo of 62 BPM in E♭, the solo runs approximately 32 seconds. Pianist Sonny Clark contributes a brief quarter-chorus solo of delicate beauty, his touch perfectly calibrated to the song's intimate mood. Sonny Clark was 30 to 31 years old at the time of this 1962 recording.

Sonny Clark was 30 to 31 years old at the time.