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Closing out the solo section, in a 3rd appearance, this piano improvisation spans two choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium swing tempo of 135 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. This is the most concise solo on the recording, making every phrase count within a compact space. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Coming after Paul Chambers's acoustic bass solo, this is the final improvisation before the ensemble returns to the head.
Wynton Kelly was 29 to 30 years old at the time.
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