Giant Steps - John Coltrane . Giant Steps bore the double- edged sword of furthering the cause of the music as well as delivering it to an increasingly mainstream audience. Although this was John Coltrane's debut for Atlantic, he was concurrently performing and recording with Miles Davis. Within the space of less than three weeks, Coltrane would complete his work with Davis and company on another genre- defining disc, Kind of Blue, before commencing his efforts on this one. Coltrane (tenor sax) is flanked by essentially two different trios. Recording commenced in early May of 1. Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Art Taylor (drums), as well as Paul Chambers - - who was the only bandmember other than Coltrane to have performed on every date. When recording resumed in December of that year, Wynton Kelly (piano) and Jimmy Cobb (drums) were instated - - replicating the lineup featured on Kind of Blue, sans Miles Davis of course. At the heart of these recordings, however, is the laser- beam focus of Coltrane's tenor solos. All seven pieces issued on the original Giant Steps are likewise Coltrane compositions. He was, in essence, beginning to rewrite the jazz canon with material that would be centered on solos - - the 1. These arrangements would create a place for the solo to become infinitely more compelling. This would culminate in a frenetic performance style that noted jazz journalist Ira Gitler accurately dubbed . He wastes no time as the disc's title track immediately indicates a progression from which there would be no looking back. Line upon line of highly cerebral improvisation snake between the melody and solos, practically fusing the two. The resolute intensity of . Tellingly, the contrasting and ultimately pastoral . Jazz was supposed to be dying, wasn’t it? That’s at least been the vibe in the press the last few years. Nielsen denounced jazz as the least-popular music genre. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Giant Steps - John Coltrane on AllMusic - 1960 - History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a. What is lost in tempo is more than recouped in intrinsic melodic beauty. Both Giant Steps .
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