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Giant Steps is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in February 1960 through Atlantic Records. [1] [2] [4] This was Coltrane's first album as leader for the label, with which he had signed a new contract the previous year. The record is regarded as one of the most influential jazz albums of all time.
Giant Steps received favourable reviews upon its release. [6] It had sold 60,000 copies in 1993, becoming Creation Records' best selling release of the year. [17] It reached the UK Top 20; [18] "Lazarus" reached number 76 in the UK. [4] NME [19] and Select [20] named it as album of the year, and it was ranked as #1 in Fanning's Fab Fifty for ...
There are four released versions of "Giant Steps" from Coltrane's original 1959 sessions. All are collected on the Atlantic Masters CD Edition of Giant Steps released in 1998. [1] Two versions, catalogued as alternative versions 1 and 2, feature Cedar Walton on piano and Lex Humphries on drums and were recorded on March 26, 1959.
Giant Steps (band), dance pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist Colin Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane; Giant Steps (The Boo Radleys album), 1993; Giant Steps (Tommy Flanagan album) Giant Steps, a compilation album by Gentle Giant "Giant Steps" (composition), the first track on the album of the same name by John Coltrane
Giant Steps was a pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist/producer Colin Campsie and bassist/keyboardist/producer George McFarlane. They had previously recorded as the Quick . Giant Steps' only album, The Book of Pride , was released in 1988, and its first single " Another Lover " became a hit in the United States, peaking at No. 13 on ...
AllMusic awarded the album 4.5 stars, with reviewer Bob Rusch stating: "This set was particularly inventive; it was Coltrane's music, but it drinks of its own spirit. You won't listen for the familiar Trane solos, but you will listen!" [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote in 1996 that it was "one of the finest piano-trio albums of the last 20 ...
The Cape Playhouse's last show of the season is 'The 39 Steps,' a fast-paced comic thriller that pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Review: Hitchcock spoof at Cape Playhouse: 4 actors, 150 roles ...
Coltrane continued his explorations on the 1960 album Giant Steps and expanded on the substitution cycle in his compositions "Giant Steps" and "Countdown", the latter of which is a reharmonized version of Eddie Vinson's "Tune Up". The Coltrane changes are a standard advanced harmonic substitution used in jazz improvisation.