John Coltrane
Tenor Sax Solo on
Salt Peanuts

About

John Coltrane's tenor sax solo is the third of four solos on this recording, following Miles Davis on trumpet. Spanning two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form in F at a blazing 340 BPM with a swing feel, Coltrane follows with two tenor saxophone choruses of characteristically dense, exploratory playing, his rapid-fire note choices demonstrating his growing mastery of the instrument. "Salt Peanuts" is a contrafact built on the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm," requiring the soloist to navigate a familiar harmonic framework with a different melodic identity.

John Coltrane was 29 to 30 years old at the time.