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." That classic ballad is a calm refuge from the
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Release date: 3 March 1998
EAN: 0081227520328 UPC: 081227520328
Release date: 3 March 1998
EAN: 0081227520328 UPC: 081227520328
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