The post John Coltrane’s Giant Steps Gets 60th Anniversary Reissue appeared first on Consequence of Sound. John Coltrane’s landmark Atlantic Records debut, Giant Steps, turns 60 this year. To ...

One was a 2002 CD version which supplemented the album’s seven tracks with eight bonus cuts: alternate studio takes which were not originally released. It was selling for £7. For the same price, there ...

For many listeners, the name John Coltrane is synonymous with the tune "Giant Steps." Whether or not you happen to agree with the proposition that this was the "greatest" or most important composition ...

Concertgoers can expect to enjoy an evening of John Coltrane’s music on Saturday when The Christopher Andrews Quintet presents “Giant Steps: The Music of John Coltrane.” The event at 7:30 p.m. is part ...

The reissued album will feature alternate takes and previously unseen images of John Coltrane. This September, Rhino will release a special re-issue of John Coltrane album Giant Steps in honor of its ...

This innovative visual deconstruction of one of jazz saxophonist Coltrane's most beloved compositions may be Raschka's (Mysterious Thelonious) most ambitious picture book yet. After a playful ...

What a difference context makes. I have heard tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane many times at the original New York City jazz basement, the Village Vanguard, a room that’s deliberately dark, lit so that ...

Cedar Walton, a powerful hard-bop pianist who appeared on more than 400 recordings and combined a meaty, rhythmic playing style with sensitive, delicate solos, died August 19. He was 79. [Photo of ...

The first CD reissue appeared in 1987. Since then, the master tapes have never sat in the vault for long and there’s been a string of editions, most notably a 1998 configuration which was the first ...

John Coltrane's Giant Steps is one of the great pieces of American music. It is an exemplar of be-bop. "I translated Coltrane's mathematical approach to architecture," Levy told The Kid Should See ...