Journal #43: Blue Train anlysis

Ahhh John Coltrane. What a man. A champion among the Jazz greats even though I do prefer Miles Davis to him, but all the same you gotta respect the greats. The point of this blog is to analyze the Coltrane song Blue Train. Running in at 10 minutes it is just a brilliant piece of jazz. It starts out relatively clam and it just bursts into this hectic but somehow orderly and brilliant piece of chaos with order. You can just feel like you are in a dark but somehow just perfectly lit club with the circular tables and a main stage with Mr. Coltrane just going at it during this piece. You can see each individual piece of sweat dripping down his face and hitting the stage. His backup band is getting into as well the drummer jamming out, and the cello player standing up and just getting down with that beat. The smell of the place is not the most pleasant because it's such a small and somewhat cramped space but still it's just brilliant and the sound of that music is just overwhelming to any of the cons or negatives that are going down. You can just feel the passion of the musicians while they are playing this epic and you can feel ever ounce of their beings that they put into the music. You can just feel the heat of the place rising up as the musicians keep playing and you yourself can just feel as if you are up on the stage playing your heart out right there with these jazz legends and greats. These are just a few of the senses that I get when I'm listening to Blue Train. I really do love Jazz because there are so many different types of it that you can either just relax and chill out to our just listen to to feel the passion of the musicians as they just jam their hearts out on this stage full of strangers. So all in all Jazz is a really passionate and emotional type of music.