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About this product
Product Identifiers
ProducerNesuhi Ertegun
Record LabelAtlantic / Rhino
UPC0075678133725
eBay Product ID (ePID)23050202546
Product Key Features
Era1950s
Run Time3760 Sec
Release Year1987
FormatCD
InstrumentPiano, Saxophone
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenreJazz
TypeAlbum
StyleHard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Spiritual, Instrumental
ArtistJohn Coltrane
Release TitleGiant Steps
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
DistributionWea
Number of Tracks12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
EngineerPhil Iehle, Tom Dowd
Additional InformationTrane's Landmark Foray Into Harmony and First Album Entirely of His Own Compositions.
ReviewsRanked #102 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "He played with a heated melodic enthusiasm - flying clusters of notes - that declared new possibilities for jazz improvisation...", 5 Stars - Excellent - "...Coltrane has managed to combine all the swing of Pres with the virility of Hawkins and added to it a highly individual, personal sound as well as a complex and logical, and therefore fascinating, mind...tag this LP as one of the important ones...", "...essential for all serious jazz collections....The culmination of 'Trane's sheets-of-sound period...GIANT STEPS brought the chordal improvising of bebop to its breaking point..."