Style
Coltrane employed extremely dense improvisational yet patterned lines consisting of high speed arpeggios and scale patterns played in rapid succession: hundreds of notes running from the lowest to highest registers. The lines are often faster than sixteenth notes, consisting of quintuplets, septuplets, etc., and can sound like glissandos. The saxophonist invented this style while playing with Thelonious Monk and later developed it further when he returned to Miles Davis' group. Both leaders are known to have facilitated a free atmosphere where Coltrane was able to experiment on the bandstand.
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