John McLaughlin's solo on "Take The Coltrane"
McLaughlin plays some crazy lines, and it's taken quite a while to figure out several of these phrases. As opposed to George Benson's reliance on the blues vocabulary, chromaticism and alternate scales are in the foreground here. The lines are fluid and very fast.
One should definitely use the metronome for progressive studying of every single phrase.
It's on John McLaughlin "After The Rain "(Verve, 1995); with Joey DeFrancesco (organ) and Elvin Jones (drums).
Here are the first two choruses:
