This session demonstrates a famous Diminished Scale sequence used by John Coltrane in his solo on "Straight No Chaser" on the classic "Milestones" album. I show a few different fingering and picking possibilities and apply the Coltrane sequence to improvising through Dominant 7 and Diminished Chords.
I was a student of ten years of Jazz Theorist/Pedagogue Dennis Sandole, teacher of John Coltrane, James Moody, Jim Hall, Pat Martino, and many other important jazz musicians. I have recorded and played with musicians such as Michael Manring, Percy Jones, and Jordan Rudess, and producers Neil Kernon and David Torn.
