Shelly Manne
Drums Solo on
Come, Gone

About

Shelly Manne's drums solo is the third of four solos on this recording, following Ray Brown on acoustic bass. Spanning one chorus of the 40-bar ABAC form in B♭ at a vigorous 236 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.

Shelly Manne was 36 to 37 years old at the time.