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John Coltrane, Giant Steps
Audio CD
Disk ID: 286160
Disk length: 1h 15m 27s (15 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1960
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Giant Steps | 4:47 |
| 2. Cousin Mary | 5:49 |
| 3. Countdown | 2:25 |
| 4. Spiral | 6:02 |
| 5. Syeeda's Song Flute | 7:05 |
| 6. Naima | 4:25 |
| 7. Mr. P.C. | 7:03 |
| 8. Giant Steps (alternate version 1) | 3:44 |
| 9. Naima (alternate version 1) | 4:31 |
| 10. Cousin Mary (alternate take) | 5:50 |
| 11. Countdown (alternate take) | 4:37 |
| 12. Syeeda's Song Flute (alternate take) | 7:11 |
| 13. Giant Steps (alternate version 2) | 3:31 |
| 14. Naima (alternate version 2) | 3:27 |
| 15. Giant Steps (alternate take) | 4:50 |
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Review
Released in January 1960, John Coltrane's first album devoted entirely to his own compositions confirmed his towering command of tenor saxophone and his emerging power as a composer. Apprenticeships with Dizzy, Miles, and Monk had helped focus his furious, expansive solos, and his stamina and underlying sense of harmonic adventure brought Coltrane, at 33, to a new cusp--the polytonal "sheets of sound" that distinguished his marathon solos were offset by interludes of subtle, concise lyricism, embodied here in the tender "Naima." That classic ballad is a calm refuge from the ecstatic, high-speed runs that spark the set's up-tempo climaxes, which begin with the opening title song, itself a cornerstone of modern jazz composition. This exemplary reissue benefits from eight alternate takes of the original album's seven stellar tracks, excellent remastering of the original tapes, and an expanded annotation. --Sam Sutherland
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
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Tracks: 12 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 1h 3m 21s (-13m 54s)
Tracks: 12 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 1h 3m 21s (-13m 54s)
Tracks: 12 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 1h 3m 21s (-13m 54s)
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