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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.
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.
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.
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.
The New York Times listed it as one of the ten best plays of the season. [3] In 1956, it was revived off-Broadway for 246 performances and featured a performance by Godfrey Cambridge. [18] An article in the May 1991 issue of the magazine Jump Cut considers in detail Peterson's play and screenplay, Take a Giant Step. The journal describes what ...
The simple structure of the songs and non-political content of bubblegum pop appealed to a younger audience. [3] Many of the songs in the bubblegum pop genre like "1,2,3 Red Light" were intended to be singles within the budget of that younger preteen audience. "1,2, 3 Red Light" became one of the biggest hits of the genre. [2]
[21] [4] In 2012, Giant Step partnered with Q-Tip to present the Offline Party series in New York. [57] On why he chose to partner with Giant Step, Q-Tip cited that "their brand and their quality are unmatched." [58] Giant Step continues to present an annual summer concert in New York's Central Park, as a part of the Central Park Summer Stage ...
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 ...