Here’s a drum solo by Shelly Manne on Come, Gone, from Sonny Rollins’s album Way Out West. I don’t know the album real well, and listening to this at random I was sure it was Max Roach playing drums— there is a similar vocabulary, melodic bent, and loose execution here.
The tune is a contrefact of After You’ve Gone, which is 20 bars long. Usually when played at a fast tempo, the rhythm section is playing double time. And here Shelly plays 40 bars, so that makes sense— one chorus of double time. Tempo is 246, and the solo starts at 5:24 in the track.
I’m assuming there’s some kind of roll sticking being used on the 16th notes— they’re quite soft, and played with a slurred articultion— very loose. There may be some kind of paradiddle sticking happening in bars 30-36; you can use an alternating sticking if you hit the accent at the end of bar 29 with the right hand, and start the triplets in bar 30 with your left.
More broadly, phrases are not real crisply delineated, he doesn’t give a lot of downbeats and easy cues. It would be worth doing some close listening along with a lead sheet for AYG and the transcription to try to understand what he’s hearing, what his thinking is with his phrasing.
Some notes on that:
• Bar 5 is a continuation of something he set up in the middle of bar 4; same with bars 8 and 9.
• Phrases beginning at bars 17, 21 and 25 all begin with a rest.
• The phrase at bar 29 begins with an anticipation, a strong accent on the & of 4 of the previous measure.
• The phrase at bar 33 begins weakly, with accents in a cross rhythm, starting after the 1.