Giant Steps

Description

Spring 1959 was quite fruitful for John Coltrane. A few weeks after finishing the recording of Kind of Blue with Miles Davis and a dream jazz band, the saxophonist embarked on the recording of his first album for the Atlantic label, Giant Steps, and would take a new step in his evolution. For a musician as studious as Coltrane, who has traversed and marked various aesthetics of jazz by taking the time to master and then surpass them, this album truly lives up to its name. At the end of his contract with hard bop, John Coltrane goes further than what he has learned, discovering the horizon of his forthcoming music. Notes cascade from his saxophone in a blend of fluidity and chaos, as he dares to explore deviant harmonies. In Coltrane's discography, this record is a giant leap towards the more spiritual and tempestuous jazz of the sixties.