Thursday, April 14, 2011

John Coltrane's Blue Train

Well when I hear this song the imagery that I being to visualize is that of a band playing the song in a low lit bar. This is all that I can imagine happening during this song. Just kidding. But in all seriousness I do see a lot more to this song. At the beginning of the song I picture a man walking down a street. I would imagine that it is somewhere in the south like in Georgia or Alabama or somewhere like that. He is walking down a very hoppin part of town and there are people all over the place. As he is walking he can hear the jazz music being played at all of the different bars and restaurants. He finds a bar that he wants to go into and he does just that. He sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Then a lovely lady comes over and asks him to dance. He agrees and as the music picks up you can tell that they are on the dance floor. They both are enjoying the dance very much, but another man cuts in and kind of steals her away from him. He returns to the bar and watched the two dancing, never leaving the gaze of the woman that he has just lost. When the music slows down, she comes over to the bar to talk with the man. They begin talking and move over to a booth and order some drinks. As the music speeds up again, this is like their hearts beating because they are kind of nervous around each other. They have really seemed to hit it off and they finish their drinks. As the song ends it goes back to the same very smooth introduction that was used and I picture them walking out of the bar together at dawn towards the sunrise. That is the image that I saw when listening to John Coltrane's Blue Train.

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