Ray Manzarek
Piano Solo on
Good Rockin'

About

Ray Manzarek's piano solo is the second of two improvisations on this recording, following Krieger's guitar solo. Taking one chorus of the 12-bar blues form in A at 143 BPM, Manzarek enters at approximately 2:45 and brings his keyboard perspective to Roy Brown's jump blues composition. His piano work here emphasizes the boogie-woogie and barrelhouse traditions that connect back to the song's 1947 origins, his classical training lending precision to the rollicking, rhythm-and-blues phrasing.

Ray Manzarek was 32 to 33 years old at the time.