Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis's " Milestones " ( 1958 ), Kind of Blue ( 1959 ), and John Coltrane's classic quartet from 1960 – 64.

Several of Coltrane's albums from the period are recognized as seminal albums in jazz more broadly, but especially modal jazz: Giant Steps, Live!

Popular modal standards include Davis's " All Blues " and " So What " ( both 1959 ), John Coltrane's " Impressions " ( 1963 ) and Herbie Hancock's " Maiden Voyage " ( 1965 ).

The album was also the first to quite clearly mark Coltrane's change from bebop to modal jazz, which was slowly becoming apparent in some of his previous releases.

) This enabled Shorter to use only one or two scales on each piece, thereby obtaining the modal flavour of John Coltrane's contemporary work without sacrificing the customary harmonic complexity of his writing.

The recording exemplifies Coltrane's melodic phrasing that came to be known as sheets of sound, and features his explorations into third-related chord movements that came to be known as Coltrane changes.

The second style was a merging of saxophonist John Coltrane's free-jazz atonalities, which hinted at the droning of the sitar – a style of playing, first heard on The Byrds ' 1966 single " Eight Miles High ", which was influential in psychedelic rock.

Coltrane's playing, however, during his early period from the mid to late ' 50s or early ' 60s influenced Gordon's playing from then onward.

Roger McGuinn of The Byrds has repeatedly stated that he listened to Coltrane extensively in this period, and that Coltrane's saxophone playing was a direct influence on his own 12-string guitar playing on The Byrds ' landmark 1965 hit " Eight Miles High ".

After moving to New York City in 1963, Tchicai fell into the free jazz scene, co-forming the New York Contemporary Five and the New York Art Quartet, and playing on John Coltrane's epochal Ascension, and with Albert Ayler and others on New York Eye and Ear Control.

It was the first album to feature Coltrane's playing on soprano saxophone, and yielded a commercial breakthrough in the form of a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 on radio, an edited version of the title song, " My Favorite Things.

John Einarson has noted that the influence of Coltrane's saxophone playing and, in particular, his song " India " from the Impressions album, can be clearly heard in " Eight Miles High "— most noticeably in McGuinn's reoccurring twelve-string guitar solo.

Later, this led me to emulate John Coltrane's saxophone on " Eight Miles High ".

" Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of " sheets of sound.

After one year spent with Ten Wheel Drive, one of the early jazz fusion groups, Liebman secured the saxophone / flute position with the group of John Coltrane's drummer, Elvin Jones.

They would often exchange ideas and learn from each other, and eventually, after many nights sitting in with Coltrane's band, Dolphy was asked to become a full member.

The event would inspire the African-American poet Dudley Randall's opus, " The Ballad of Birmingham ", as well as jazz musician John Coltrane's song " Alabama ".

The track " Naima " was recorded on December 2 with Coltrane's bandmates, the rhythm section from the Miles Davis Quintet, who would provide the backing for most of his next album, Coltrane Jazz.

Coltrane's next major album, 1960's Giant Steps, would break new melodic and harmonic ground in jazz, whereas Blue Train adheres to the hard bop style of the era.

Two of its songs — " Moment's Notice " and " Lazy Bird " — demonstrate Coltrane's first recorded use of Coltrane changes, which he would later expand upon on Giant Steps.

Sessions the week before Halloween at Atlantic Studios yielded the track " Village Blues " for Coltrane Jazz and the entirety of this album, along with the tracks that Atlantic would later assemble into Coltrane Plays the Blues and Coltrane's Sound.

Jazz pioneers such as John Coltrane — who recorded a composition entitled ' India ' during the November 1961 sessions for his album Live At The Village Vanguard ( the track was not released until 1963 on Coltrane's album Impressions )— also embraced this fusion.

A later Pablo box set from Coltrane's European tours of the early 1960s collected more recordings which feature tunes not played at the Village Vanguard, such as " My Favorite Things ", which Dolphy performs on flute.

John Coltrane's Blue Train, and Cannonball Adderley's Somethin ' Else ( featuring Miles Davis in one of his last supporting roles ) were guest appearances on the label.

In 1964, Elvin Jones incorporated timpani into his drum kit on John Coltrane's four-part composition A Love Supreme.

* " Locomotion ", a song on John Coltrane's album Blue Train

Resnick also recorded using the two-handed tapping technique in 1974 on the John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers album " Latest Edition " and has said that he was attempting to duplicate the legato of John Coltrane's " Sheets of Sound ".

*" Satellite ", on John Coltrane's 1964 album Coltrane's Sound

He was a featured sideman on several early Hank Mobley records, as well as on John Coltrane's Blue Train ( 1957 ), on which he played a trumpet with an angled bell ( given to him by Gillespie ) and delivered one of his most celebrated solos on the title track.

He led many recording sessions throughout the 50s, and in 1957 appeared on John Coltrane's Blue Train.

Then in May 1961, Hubbard played on Olé Coltrane, John Coltrane's final recording session with Atlantic Records.

Together with Eric Dolphy, Hubbard was the only ' session ' musician who appeared on both Olé and Africa / Brass, Coltrane's first album with ABC / Impulse!

Though he never fully embraced the free jazz of the 1960s, he appeared on two of its landmark albums: Coleman's Free Jazz and Coltrane's Ascension, as well as on Sonny Rollins ' 1966 ' New Thing ' track East Broadway Run Down with Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison.

John Coltrane's admiration led to recordings for Impulse Records, the first of which was Four for Trane in 1964, an album of mainly Coltrane compositions on which he was sided by his long-time friend, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Reggie Workman and alto player John Tchicai.

Shepp participated in the sessions for Coltrane's A Love Supreme in late 1964, but none of the takes he participated in were included on the final LP release ( they were made available for the first time on a 2002 reissue ).

* The song " Alabama " on John Coltrane's Live at Birdland ( recorded November 18, 1963 ) served as an elegy to the bombing.

Ponty's attraction to jazz was propelled by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's music, which led him to adopt the electric violin.

In 1999, Cline paired up with jazz drummer Gregg Bendian to record a modern rendition of John Coltrane's 1967 album, Interstellar Space.

Coltrane's epochal, proto-free jazz " Chasin ' the Trane " was inspired partly by Gilmore's sound.

As well as its enormous artistic influence, Coltrane's classic 1965 LP A Love Supreme became one of the most successful jazz albums ever released — it sold more than 100, 000 copies on its first release, and by 1970 it had sold more than half a million.

It is generally considered to be among Coltrane's greatest works, as it melded the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted later.

Performing with bassist Reggie Workman in Coltrane's group, Davis pioneered the use of two basses in a jazz combo setting.

The music reflects Coltrane's evolving emotional and musical range, where he explores jazz modality, the music of India, the blues, and a traditional Swedish folk song ( this last track was not included on the original 1963 album, but appeared first on a 1970s previously-unissued LP compilation and is on the current — as of year 2000 — CD release of Impressions as a bonus song ).

" Dear Old Stockholm " is a Swedish folk song, best known in the English-speaking world for versions by jazz artists such as Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers and John Coltrane's Impressions album.