Ray Brown
Acoustic Bass Solo on
Come, Gone

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Ray Brown's acoustic bass solo is the second of four solos on this recording, following Sonny Rollins on tenor sax. Spanning one chorus of the 40-bar ABAC form in B♭ at a vigorous 227 BPM with a swing feel, Brown takes a single swinging bass chorus before Manne delivers his own statement on drums, maintaining the song's form with melodic precision. "Come, Gone" is a contrafact built on the chord changes of "After You've Gone," requiring the soloist to navigate a familiar harmonic framework with a different melodic identity.

Ray Brown was 30 to 31 years old at the time.