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“Lady day and John Coltrane” - Coggle Diagram
“Lady day and John Coltrane”
Context
John Coltrane was a tenor saxophonist in the era of the modern jazz combo
blues and soul
Structure
Bars 1–4 Intro
Bars 5–36 First Verse
Bars 5–44 Second Verse
Bars 45–76- improvised sax solo
Dal Segno to Coda
standard strophic form
Melody
melisma (several notes to a syllable) featuring a blue note flattened fifth.
short improvised saxophone links, or fills, between the phrases
glissandos, chromatic scales and short slides up to and down from the note In the sax solo
Harmony
C7(♯9) chords
Blues notes
thirteenth chord on the flat seventh (B♭)
In bar 25 chromatic descent through a series of seventh chords, before returning again to the B♭ thirteenth chord
bar with no harmony (stop time effect)
backing vocal harmony, mainly in fifths In the 2nd verse
The whole harmony then shifts up a semitone In the coda
ostinato three-chord sequence
G augmented) sustained over four bars.
Tonality
Texture
sax provides a counterpoint In the coda
Instrumentation
Turntable effects
keyboard is set to sound like a Hammond organ, used in much early blues and soul music- sound features a vibrato effect
singer is the blues and soul specialist Lynden David Hall
saxophone phrase includes a slow lip vibrato
An improvised sax solo includes pitch bend technique
saxophone moves into a very high tessitura
multiphonic (producing several distorted notes at once) On the sax
key clicks where Pine presses the keys down hard without actually blowing
Rhythm, tempo, metre
fast tempo rock rhythm
faster harmonic rhythm In the turnaround
At bar 119 the drum rhythm stops