{"product_id":"john-coltrane-giant-steps-1976-japanese-atlantic-vinyl-lp","title":"John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1976 Japanese Atlantic Stereo Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Coltrane - \u003cem\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1976 Japanese Atlantic Stereo Reissue (P-7502A, Warner-Pioneer)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the few jazz albums that genuinely changed the music. Recorded in 1959, it was John Coltrane's first record made entirely of his own compositions, and it introduced a harmonic idea so demanding that it is still used to test musicians today. The title track moves through its key centres at a speed that seems impossible, the famous \"Coltrane changes\", and Coltrane sails through them while his pianist, the great Tommy Flanagan, is left visibly scrambling, a moment every student of the music knows. But \u003cem\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/em\u003e is far more than a technical exercise. \"Naima\", the ballad Coltrane wrote for his wife, is one of the most beautiful things he ever recorded, played here by a different rhythm section with Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb. \"Mr. P.C.\", a fast blues named for bassist Paul Chambers, and \"Cousin Mary\" swing hard, and \"Syeeda's Song Flute\", written for his daughter, has a bright, folk-like lift. It is the sound of a master stepping into his full powers, and it has never stopped being essential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything Coltrane did afterwards, the modal explorations, the spiritual quest of \u003cem\u003eA Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003e, the free playing of his final years, grew out of the ground he broke here. \u003cem\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/em\u003e remains the entry point, the record where the language he would spend the rest of his life expanding first came fully into view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis particular pressing is well worth knowing: Japanese collectors rate it among the best-sounding editions of the album, several preferring it to the original American copies. This is the 1976 Japanese stereo reissue on Atlantic, manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation, catalogue number P-7502A.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43935401017403,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_8193.jpg?v=1786160125","url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/products\/john-coltrane-giant-steps-1976-japanese-atlantic-vinyl-lp","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}