Style:

Swing, usually played at an up tempo.

Form:

12 Bar Blues

Key:

F# Major

Harmony/Overview:

This  composition is a Sus blues; the I and IV treated as 7sus chords and there is a IV7sus - bIII7sus turnaround. The I chord in this composition is treated as a 7sus4add3.

Recordings:

This song was first recorded in 1960 on one of the sessions for My Favorite Things. When  Coltrane moved to the Impulse! label and his fame grew in the 1960's,  Atlantic used the unissued recordings and released them without  Coltrane's consent or approval on the album Coltrane Plays the Blues. It is not Coltrane's most widely known blues, it has been recorded just about a dozen times.

JGC Top Picks:

John Coltrane, Coltrane Plays the Blues, 1960

Dave Liebman, Homage To John Coltrane, 1987

Scot Colley, This Place, 1997