Tag Archives: John Coltrane

Happy Birthday, John Coltrane! September 23, 2012

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The Lick! November 19, 2011

Tweet   This is a perfect example of many players using the same piece of vocabulary in a variety of contexts. It’s almost like a study in musical linguistics.
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Video: EXTREME Sax Workouts December 16, 2010

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Photo: In The Navy November 2, 2010

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ii-V of the day: John Coltrane – 9.24.10 September 25, 2010

Tweet Today’s ii-V come from John Coltrane‘s I Hear A Rhapsody solo from his 1957 Lush Life album. The phrase starts on A7(b9), which is VI(b9) in the key of C. The line starts on that (b9), Bb, moves chromatically down to the 7th (G), and then descends down the arpeggio before resolving to the [...]

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ii-V of the day: John Coltrane – 9.16.10 September 16, 2010

Tweet Today’s ii-V is taken from John Coltrane’s solo on Take The Coltrane from the 1963 Duke Ellington and John Coltrane album. Unlike the previous ii-V’s I’ve posted, this one is completely diatonic – no accidentals, everything is in the key. The first two measures are mostly scalar except for a skip from A to [...]

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