“B doles out more deep blues … What separates B’s shopworn riffs from those of a thousand other piano players are his patience—he is never in a hurry—and that weird intangible we write off as ‘feel,’ which invest the ancient licks with a kind of slow-motion urgency. Too many bluesers get no further into the style than the surface; B seems to have been rooted in it since tripping across his first flatted third.”