John Coltrane
Soprano Sax Solo on
Central Park West

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John Coltrane's soprano sax solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before McCoy Tyner's closing piano statement. Spanning one chorus of the 10-Bar form at a ballad tempo of 76 BPM, the solo runs approximately 36 seconds. Among the more harmonically adventurous pieces on the album, "Central Park West" employs a cycle of major-third key relationships that anticipate the ceaseless harmonic motion of Coltrane's later work. John Coltrane was 33 to 34 years old at the time of this 1960 recording.

John Coltrane was 33 to 34 years old at the time.