John Coltrane: Giant Steps & My Favorite Things (2 LPs on 1 CD)

[Giant Steps] “perhaps Coltrane’s most playable, memorable, and best-sustained record. The tunes are uniformly marvellous, riffs or steps or even melodies which have become integral parts of the modern jazz book” [My Favorite Things] “dominated by his soprano sax … the important thing is that both Coltrane and Tyner reduce the material to a couple of scales and ignore the changes, without forgetting to return to the main theme ..gives the music a suitably endless feel” (Penguin Jazz Guide) Giant Steps Giant Steps (Coltrane)Cousin Mary (Coltrane) 4:47Countdown (Coltrane) 5:48Spiral (Coltrane) 2:24Syeeda’s Song Flute (Coltrane) 7:04Naima* (Coltrane) 4:19(*Wynton Kelly piano, Jimmy Cobb drums)Mr.P.C. (Coltrane) 7:00 John Coltrane (tenor sax) Paul Chambers (bass) Art Taylor (drums) Tommy Flanagan (piano)Album originally issued on Atlantic, SD 1311, 1960Recorded May 4,5 (1-5 and 7) and December 2 (track 6), 1959Producer: Nesuhi Ertegun; Engineers : Tom Dowd; Phil Lehle My Favorite Things