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Wynton Kelly's piano solo is the 5th of 6 solos on this recording, following Hank Mobley's tenor sax and before Art Blakey's closing drums statement. Spanning two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form at an up-tempo 214 BPM with a swing feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 1:13. Wynton Kelly contributes two choruses of swinging piano improvisation, his block chords and single-note lines embodying the quintessential hard bop keyboard approach. Wynton Kelly was 25 to 26 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. "Ball Bearing" is a thirty-two-bar AABA hard bop original composed by tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin for his 1957 Blue Note album A Blowing Session.
Wynton Kelly was 25 to 26 years old at the time.
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