John Coltrane
Tenor Sax Solo on
Epistrophy

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John Coltrane's tenor sax solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Ray Copeland's closing trumpet statement. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar ABCB form at a medium-up 173 BPM with a swing feel in D♭, the solo runs approximately 45 seconds. Coltrane takes a single chorus of tenor saxophone, navigating the composition's chromatic architecture with the intense focus that characterized his playing during his transformative period with Monk. John Coltrane was 30 to 31 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. Epistrophy is a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in 1941, originally titled Fly Right.

John Coltrane was 30 to 31 years old at the time.