Kenny Drew
Piano Solo on
Old Devil Moon

About

Kenny Drew's piano solo is the sole improvisation on this recording. Spanning half a chorus of the 48-bar AA' form at a medium-up 162 BPM with a swing feel in F, the solo runs approximately 36 seconds. The song, from the 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, has an infectious, slightly exotic quality built on its distinctive harmonic motion, and Drew seizes on this character with an energetic, rhythmically driven solo full of crisp articulation and bebop-influenced melodic ideas. Kenny Drew was 29 to 30 years old at the time of this 1958 recording.

Kenny Drew was 29 to 30 years old at the time.