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His father was John R. Coltrane [8] and his mother was Alice Blair. [9] He grew up in High Point, North Carolina, and attended William Penn High School. While in high school, Coltrane played clarinet and alto horn in a community band [10] before switching to the saxophone, after being influenced by the likes of Lester Young and Johnny Hodges.
Impressions" is a jazz standard composed by John Coltrane. Coltrane only recorded the composition during two studio dates—on June 20, 1962 and March 6, 1963. [1] [2] The 1962 recordings were released on the 2002 deluxe edition of the 1962 album Coltrane and elsewhere. [3]
The title track is a modal rendition of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.The melody is heard numerous times throughout, but instead of playing solos over the written chord changes, both Tyner and Coltrane take extended solos over vamps of the two tonic chords, E minor and E major (whereas the original resolves to G major), [8] played in waltz time. [9]
According to Roger McGuinn, while touring in late 1965, the rock band the Byrds had only a single tape recording to listen to on the tour bus, with Ravi Shankar on one side and Coltrane's Impressions and Africa/Brass on the other: "We played that damn thing 50 or 100 times, through a Fender amplifier that was plugged into an alternator in the car."
Blue Train is a studio album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released through Blue Note Records in January 1958. [1] It is Coltrane's only session as leader for Blue Note. [8] The recording took place at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on September 15, 1957. Coltrane wrote four of the record's five tracks.
The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records.It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell.
Blue Train" is a 1958 jazz standard composed by John Coltrane. It is the lead track on the album of the same name. [1] Rather than having either a major or minor quality, it contains both by using an E ♭ 7 ♯ 9 chord, utilizing both the major and minor 3rd. [citation needed]
While the track is taken at a very moderate tempo on Kind of Blue, it is played at a speedy tempo on later live recordings by the quintet, such as Miles Davis & John Coltrane The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6, and even faster by Miles Davis's second quintet in the mid 1960's for example on Four & More.