Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This book will focus on the first period of Coltrane's career, when he was with Miles Davis, and the jazz vocabulary he used. First, to help the student better understand Coltrane's bebop style of improvising, the authors discuss the use of guide tones, bebop scales, three to flat nine, targeting, and othe...

• John Coltrane
• The Style of John Coltrane
• Jazz Language
• Guide Tones
• Bebop Scales
• Mixolydian Bebop
• Major Bebop
• Minor Bebop
• Scalar Patterns
• 3-
• 9
• Augmented Dominant
• Playing the Upper-Structure of Chords
• Targeting
• Substitutions
• John Coltrane's Style
• Summary
• Minor Chord Material
• Track 1: Tuning
• Track 2: Minor Chord Vamp
• Track 3: Minor Moving in Fourths
• Dominant Seventh Chord Material
• Track 4: Dominant Seventh Vamp
• Track 5: Dominant...