John Coltrane
Tenor Sax Solo on
Trane's Slo Blues

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John Coltrane's tenor sax solo opens the improvised portion of this recording, followed by Earl May on acoustic bass. Spanning six choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at a moderate 128 BPM with a swing feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 2:22. As an original composition rather than a standard, "Trane's Slo Blues" reveals Coltrane's approach to the blues form stripped of any melodic obligations, his improvisation building entirely from his own musical conception rather than from the scaffolding of a pre-existing melody. John Coltrane was 30 to 31 years old at the time of this 1957 recording.

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