Lazy Bird

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Lazy Bird is a composition by John Coltrane, first appearing on his 1957 album Blue Train.

Its name is a play on the title of the Tadd Dameron composition Lady Bird; Coltrane biographer Lewis Porter has demonstrated the harmonic relationship between "Lady Bird" the A section of "Lazy Bird". (The bridge of Coltrane's song is apparently a variation on the standard, "Lover Man"). yeah The A section of "Lazy Bird" also features two tonal centres a major third apart, an idea that would later be expanded into what are known as Coltrane changes.