Wynton Kelly
Piano Solo on
Pfrancing (No Blues)

About

Taking the 3rd solo, returning for a second turn, this piano improvisation spans three choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium swing tempo of 137 BPM. Wynton Kelly opens and returns twice during the performance for a total of seven choruses, his blues-drenched piano work providing some of the most soulful playing on the entire album. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Situated between Miles Davis's trumpet solo and Hank Mobley's turn on tenor sax, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Wynton Kelly was 29 to 30 years old at the time.