Giant steps (John Coltrane) (LP 366 - 372)

John Coltrane Coltrane (First Trane) (CD, Not Now Music, 1957) ****
John Coltrane Giant Steps (CD, MCPS, 1959) *****
John Coltrane Soultrane (CD, MCPS, 1958) *****
John Coltrane Coltrane Jazz (CD, Not Now Music, 1960) ****
John Coltrane Ole Coltrane (CD, MCPS, 1961) *****
John Coltrane My Favourite Things (CD, MCPS, 1960) *****
John Coltrane Africa/Brass (CD, MCPS, 1961) ****

Genre: Jazz 

Places I remember: The Warehouse Palmerston North

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Greensleeves from Africa/Brass is a firm favourite of mine.




Gear costume:  My Favourite Things 

Active compensatory factors: All those five stars? Too much? Not when you consider the singularity of the talent on display in every one of these songs.

Classics! One and all!

Repackaging of old Jazz albums has obviously grown as the copyrights have changed over time - good for collectors like me who can suddenly buy multipacks of quality music.

Blue Train is also on this 3CD set of 6 albums (for a bargain price of $10) but I've already written about that one.

These three multipack sets neatly cover some seminal albums from the 1957-1961 period.

Coltrane Jazz appears as a Twofer with Africa/Brass and Coltrane (First Trane) is twinned with Soultrane on another Twofer CD set.

They are each amazing in their own right but Giant Steps is the one I play the most.

The two main pianists on these albums also deserve a mention: Red Garland and McCoy Tyner produce some of their most inspired playing on these albums.


Where do they all belong? More to come from Trane.