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Taking the 2nd solo, this piano improvisation spans 15 choruses of the 12-bar blues at an uptempo swing feel at 238 BPM. Pianist Steven Feifke then delivers a remarkable fifteen-chorus solo — by far the longest piano feature in the series — that traces a full arc from spare, exploratory ideas to dense, rhythmically charged passages. This is the longest solo on the recording in terms of chorus count, suggesting a featured role in the arrangement. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Situated between Chad Lefkowitz-Brown's tenor sax solo and Michael Piolet's turn on drums, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.
Steven Feifke was 26 to 27 years old at the time.
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