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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.
The master studio recording was released on the 1960 album Giant Steps, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. [14] "Giant Steps" has been covered by numerous artists, including Archie Shepp and Max Roach on The Long March (1979) [15] and Henry Butler on his debut album Fivin' Around (1986), [16] among others.
The ii chord is followed by a dominant 7 chord that is a half step above—using the first four bars as an example, this would be Em7 and F7. This dominant 7 chord resolves in a V-I manner—F7 to B♭Δ7. The next key center is cycled to by playing the dominant 7th chord a minor third up from the last key center—D♭7 to G♭Δ7 to A7 to DΔ7.
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.
"Naima" (/ n aɪ ˈ iː m ə / ny-EE-mə) is a jazz ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959 that he named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs. Coltrane first recorded it for his 1959 album Giant Steps, and it became one of his first well-known works.
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 ...
Giant Steps (subtitled In Memory of John Coltrane) is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan recorded in 1982 featuring compositions by John Coltrane. [1] [2] Reception
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 ...