Credits:

Chet Baker

Description:

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) – Ranked #102 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time” – “[H]e played with a heated melodic enthusiasm – flying clusters of notes – that declared new possibilities for jazz improvisation…” Down Beat (1960) – 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…” JazzTimes (11/94, p.88) – “…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…”

Tracklisting:

1.Giant Steps
2.Cousin Mary
3.Countdown
4.Spiral
1.Syeeda’s Song Flute
2.Naima
3.Mr. P.C.