John Coltrane - Giant Steps [hino 45rpm 2 LP-Set; mastered by Bernie Grundman] 24-bit/96kHz

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"...[Coltrane] has managed to combine all the swing of Pres with the virility of Hawkins and added to it a highly individual, personal sound as well as a complex and logical, and therefore fascinating, mind...tag this LP as one of the important ones..." Down Beat (1960) - 5 Stars - Excellent

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Giant Steps is a 1960 album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released on Atlantic Records.

Giant Steps was his second album to be recorded by the Atlantic label, and marked the first time that all of the pieces on a recording had been composed by him. The recording exemplifies Coltrane's melodic phrasing that came to be known as sheets of sound, and features the use of a new harmonic concept now referred to as Coltrane changes. Jazz musicians continue to use the Giant Steps chord progression as a practice piece and as a gateway into modern jazz improvisation. The ability to play over the Giant Steps/Coltrane cycle remains to this day one of the benchmark standards by which a jazz musician's improvising skill is measured.

The album is also considered to be Coltrane's farewell to bebop. He ventured into the territory of modal jazz shortly afterwards.

Several pieces on this album went on to become jazz standards, such as "Naima", "Giant Steps", "Cousin Mary", "Countdown", and "Mr. P.C."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 102 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2004, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.




Track listing

All tracks composed by John Coltrane.

"Giant Steps" – 4:43
"Cousin Mary" – 5:45
"Countdown" – 2:21
"Spiral" – 5:56
"Syeeda's Song Flute" – 7:00
"Naima" – 4:21
"Mr. P.C." (Mr. Paul Chambers) – 6:57

Personnel

John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Paul Chambers — bass
Art Taylor — drums
Recorded May 4 and May 5, 1959: main take tracks 1–5, 7

Wynton Kelly — piano
Jimmy Cobb — drums
Recorded December 2, 1959: main take track 6

Nesuhi Ertegün — Producer
Tom Dowd — Engineer
Phil Iehle — Engineer
Stephen Innocenzi — original Mastering
Marvin Israel — Cover Design
Nat Hentoff — Liner Notes
Lee Friedlander — Photography