Earl May Solography

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Recording Date	Album Title	Bandleader	Song Title	Composer	Solo Details	Notes
31/5/1957	Lush Life	John Coltrane	Trane’s Slo Blues	John Coltrane	3:01 – 3:50 Two choruses	Two choruses of medium tempo 12-bar blues, between sax solo and drum solo; also one chorus of walking time with the drums out front; (NB: the tempo varies quite significantly throughout the performance, but is more or less steady during the bass solo)
16/8/57	The Last Trane	John Coltrane	Slowtrane	John Coltrane	3:48 – 4:51 Two choruses	Two 12-bar choruses of a slow blues, but in double-time feel throughout, so equivalent to 48 bars
19/6/1964	Cole Slaw	Lou Donaldson	Lil’ Miss Fine	Lou Donaldson	4:01 – 4:49 One chorus	One 12-bar chorus of a slow blues, but in double-time feel throughout, so equivalent to 24 bars; (NB: One double-time feel crotchet seems to have been disappeared from the very end of the piano solo, right before Earl enters)