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John Coltrane leads off the solos with two choruses on tenor sax, the first of three improvisations on the recording. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 199 BPM over the 36-bar ABA in D♭, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Paul Chambers and John Coltrane tackle Benny Golson's "Stablemates" on the 1956 album Chambers' Music, delivering a muscular performance of the tune's challenging 36-bar ABA form. Recorded for the album Chambers' Music in 1956, the performance captures John Coltrane at 29 to 30 years old. Coltrane takes the first solo with two commanding tenor saxophone choruses, his dense, harmonically searching approach already hinting at the revolutionary developments that lay just ahead.
John Coltrane was 29 to 30 years old at the time.
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