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What scale is blue train in?
The Eb Blues scale is [ Eb Gb Ab A Bb C ] and you can use it throughout the tune. It will always sound "in", but after a while it will also feel a little limited, and you'll be looking for more. The first four bars of Blue Train, a minor blues in Eb, have an Ebm7 chord.
Did John Coltrane improvise?
Coltrane forged on through the 60s, shedding and recruiting band-members on the way, providing a model for the difficult art of larger-group free-improv with his 1965 recording Ascension, and in his final years forming an uncompromising new band with his second wife, Alice, on keyboards, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, ...
What instruments are in blue train?
Personnel
- John Coltrane – tenor saxophone.
- Lee Morgan – trumpet.
- Curtis Fuller – trombone.
- Kenny Drew – piano.
- Paul Chambers – bass.
- Philly Joe Jones – drums.
