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In NCIS Season 11 Episode 19 (Crescent City: Part II) a character called Wendell Hobbs plays a bluesy tune on an electronic keyboard. It may well just be a made up ditty for the show (basic 12 bar blues stuff), but I'd love to know if it's from an actual song (and an idea of the exact genre if possible).
I cannot find anything from hours of searching varying keywords. If you have Amazon Prime Video, it's S11E19 at around 11:16.
I listened to the clip in question. I'm no dictionary of blues tunes, but the tune being played was not familiar to me.
The clip was slightly less than two choruses of a basic 12-bar shuffle blues with a V-I turnaround. To me, the right-hand part being played sounded pretty ornamental and repetitive.
Therefore, I'm guessing that it was just someone comping over the chords (and clearly not the actor), as opposed to being some well-known tune. In other words, it's the kind of music that any blues keyboardist could generate pretty much at the drop of a hat. And by not using some known, possibly-copyrighted tune, the show avoids licensing fees. Seems pretty likely, anyway.
