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The Spotlight is On John Coltrane's Album "Giant Steps"

Giant Steps

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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."

John Coltrane at a Glance

John William Coltrane (September 23 1926 ? July 17 1967)allmusic Biography was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later helped pioneer free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history. He was astonishingly prolific: he made about fifty recordings as a leader in his twelve-year-long recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. As his career progressed, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane, and their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist.

He received many awards, among them a posthumous Special Citation from...

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The Spotlight is On John Coltrane's Album "Giant Steps"

John Coltrane at a Glance

John Coltrane's Albums

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Giant Steps (1960)

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First Meditations (1965)

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Dear Old Stockholm (1965)

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Dakar (1957)

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Crescent (1964)

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Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (1961)

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Coltrane's Sound (1964)

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Coltrane Time (1959)

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Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962)

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Coltrane Jazz (1961)

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Coltrane (1962)

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Cattin' With Coltrane & Quinichette (1957)

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Bye Bye Blackbird (1962)

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Blue Train (1957)

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Black Pearls (1958)

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Best Of John Coltrane (1963)

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Believer (1964)

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Ballads (1962)

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Bahia (1958)

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Bags And Trane (1960)

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Avant-Garde (1967)

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Ascension (1965)

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Tenor Conclave (1956)

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