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John Coltrane contributes two choruses on tenor sax, the second of 3 solos on the recording. Taken at a medium-up swing tempo of 146 BPM over the 44-bar AAABAA' in B♭, the improvisation unfolds with comfortable, easygoing swing. "Bakai" opens John Coltrane's 1957 album Coltrane, his first recording as a leader for Prestige Records, with a composition by the Philadelphia trumpeter Calvin Massey. Recorded for the album Coltrane in 1957, the performance captures John Coltrane at 30 to 31 years old. The album was recorded during a period of extraordinary artistic growth for Coltrane, who was simultaneously working as a sideman with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk while developing his own voice as a bandleader.
John Coltrane was 30 to 31 years old at the time.
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