This song gave me a heart attack lol. The fact that A, the musicians were able to keep in sync with each other and B, the composer managed to make this work is really impressive.
They also recorded the studio version the day Coltrane gave them the chords - the fact that the bassist managed to keep this walking baseline going the whole time whilst staying in step at 288bpm is alien to me
@@thomassmith1981 It wasn't first try tho... when transcribing the bassline is almost every time the same, so Mr. P.C. learned some basslines over time.
Ok. Tommy redeemed himself. Check out his recording of Giant Steps Tommy made later in his career. I wouldn't want to have been the piano player on that date. Trane had time to work those changes out!
@@blaney1014 Actually, the pianist in this case does not a great job. Listen to it carefully and you´ll notice that he can´t keep up, and his solo is a bit lame compared to Coltrane´s. By the end of the song it sounds much better though. Just my humble opinion.
@ Tommy Flanagan was a great jazz pianist (arguably top 30 of all time) and although Coltrane alternated band members, I believe he wouldn’t have worked with him had he been someone who couldn’t fit the bill. In the case of this Giant Steps track, particularly at the beginning, and his solo, he struggles to be at Trane’s level.
Probably the best saxophone recording of all time. I have never gotten tired of this song and have listened since its debut. This is "One of My Favorite Things" for sure.
For those who don't understand the genius behind John's performance here. It's like switching between speaking FLUENT English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Korean, Hindi at every word. The level of understanding that Coltrane had of with these scales is just unparalleled.
I'm sorry, but that's wildly exaggerated. A different scale is not the same as a completely other language. It's definitely hard to play this tune at the level Trane did, but that is not an apt comparison.
@@Maningray1960 And let's not forget the underrated Mr. John Gilmore, tenor saxophonist in Sun Ra's troupe. Even John Coltrane said of him "I learned a lot from him". Albert Ayler also seems to have influenced Trane, particularly for the "Ascension" album recorded in June 1965.
What's even more amazing was that this was from the post-bebop era. It wasn't even close to as fast as what was being played from the late 1940's to the mid 1950's. And, by the way, I *LOVE* Tommy Flanagan's piano solo! It momentarily transports you from this insane, frenetic, fast-forward hellscape of Coltrane's masterfully-cacophonous saxophone solo, and into this slow-motion La-La Land of huge, rainbow-colored lollipops, sunbeams through the trees, and harp glissandos, only to be *SLAMMED* back into reality by Coltrane's jagged melodic lines incessantly bashing you about the head! What an absolute gem of a tune!
Well tbf, he was thrown in the deep end since he was given the sheet music on the day of therrecording while Coltrane spent 2 years practicing the song, so of course it'd sound slower 🤣
@@jeffsirname That wouldn't be stereo... it's often called LCR mixing. It's not as common today, as it was in, say, the 60s. For anyone that didn't realize, LCR means 'Left, Center, Right', and that means there's only three options for where a track is sent, in the final mix. And, you might have already noticed it on some tracks by The Beatles, or something.
@@shanecombs1993 That's how they recorded it. 4 tracks were new back then and people either didn't know or couldn't do stereo the way people do it now, the Beatles, the Doors and the first Pink Floyd album did the same. If only they remastered the mono version of the album too.
It’s just that they all had a hard time keeping up with each other but that’s what made it so glorious. The imprecision of jazz in this case combined with the circle of fifths. It’s insanely complex. Many people can’t absorb it all.
If views and likes were determined by artistic merit and sheer musical majesty this would have been viewed and liked by every human on earth...multiple times.
n the early 1980's my wife and I were perusing albums at the tower records store in Brea California, and this album was playing on the sound system. We asked the clerk where we could find it in the stacks of albums, and they only had the one play on the turn table. We bought it straight off the turn table. I still have the album, and it is one of my favorites still! I bought a vinyl online to give to my grand daughter who is discovering vinyl. She is 17, and I'm sending her tons of vinyl of all my favorites as fast as I can find them. LOL
A comment I made in response to a comment about people "trash talking" the piano solo: I don't think it's trash talk to say he was completely out of his element in a manic set of key changes that he had no time to practice. What really shows the depth of the pianist, and his understanding of jazz, is that even when thrown these elements that we couldn't possibly expect him to comprehend in such short order, and therefore unable to utilize the full range of his talents on the keys, he nevertheless found a way to counterpoint Coltrane's complexity with a set of staccato offbeat chords. However, when he gets to the solo, and is standing on his own, he falters on several occasions. It's obvious that the chord changes flustered him and he couldn't grasp them( again, no trash talk, it's very simply true), and despite putting together a few flourishes, eventually he concedes that the subject is beyond him, and cedes the floor to the master. None of this detracts from a few simple statements: that doesn't mean there was a pianist alive that could've done better than he did in his shoes. None of the flaws mar the solo in the sense that we are witnessing in improv the introduction and production of lines of jazz thought that still influence artists today, and that the pianist played a key role in that. Two things can be true at once, and I think a lot of things are simultaneously true about this solo. Oh, and that doesn't mean that people don't "trash talk" the solo either. It just means that an honest critique of the solo isn't necessarily trash talking the solo.
I kind of like the sporadic, jilted, softer piano sound that gives way to the voice of the saxophone. It creates a cool juxtaposition of voice and flavor.
And the question is (I'll have to ask specialists): did Tommy Flanagan discover the song at the recording session, and I think he did, which shows his brilliance, or did Coltrane give him the sheet music a few days before?
I know most of the people who were involved in this recording. What I was told was that the pianist entered the studio; was handed the lead sheet; Coltrane counted it off; and, that's it. Sometimes geniuses have a hard time understanding that they are different from most people and that Tommy may be a genius but still be unable to see everything Coltrane saw.
It's easy to get enthralled by the sax, and rightfully so, but the drums are just as rediculous. I love it when he taps everybody to shut up so the piano can play.
This is musical rope skipping to the beat, taking it to higher heights you are enjoying it so you keep moving to the beat, step by step...you feel alive, no change of pace...living music, timeless.
I bought this Album: Giant Steps, from Hime & Addison, record shop, John Dalton Street, Manchester, England, U.K. in 1960. At that time I believe i had only copy in Manchester. Never thought when I got home and listened to it would become such a highly rated Jazz album in years to come. I enjoyed album immediately. Peace to all !!
This gives me anxiety in such a good way it's very overwhelming but so good at the same time kudos to the pianist he improvised the best he could it damn he did a good job awesome record!!
Such a tragic loss--thinking about that fire that happened a few years back- we lost some of the world's greatest masterpieces- but be thankful that we have the technology-- reproduced copies of remasters of remasters- so to speak- The Works are still here for us to enjoy forever--🎵
For people trash talking the pianist you try improvising changing from key to key all over the circle of fifths and playing at almost 300 bpm, you try to do that
@@zdogg8 I have read that they had extra time in the recording studio so they filled it up with a Slominsky exercise that John hadn't intended to record. He didn't like the result and almost never played on stage.
@@Frisbieinstein it gets easy when you understand the patterns like hoe there’s a bunch of 2-5-1s in there, there you can just use the diatonic harmony of the changes
I’ve always wondered what the name of this song is. I dont know instrumental jazz well but my grand parents played it when i was very young and I’ve heard it since i was a little boy. Finally i asked my iPhone when it came on ther jazz show on the NPR station ! Got it now!
There's a fantastic little video mini doc on YT about the first recording of this and the epic challenges for the pianist. It's from vox so it'll be on their channel. Fantastic music! ❤
I have read that they had extra time in the recording studio so they filled it up with a Slominsky exercise that John hadn't intended to record. That's why it was new to Tommy. John never or almost never played GS on stage.
Paul Chambers! There is a reason Coltrane wrote Mr PC. Who else could play this music and make it sound so flowing and natural. THE best walking bassist the world has ever seen.
it seems people are losing sight of what a 'banger; is. you arent he only person who wrote this, and this is genius, smooth, cerebral and clinical and divine, but a 'banger' it is not.
My father, 18 years old at the time, walked into a club in NYC where Coltrane was playing. Maybe a dozen people were there. In between sets, Coltrane bellied up next to my father at the bar and asked this young kid how he was doing. My father was terrified. 😂 He managed to say, “Nice set.” Coltrane bought him his next drink. To this day, I give my father a hard time about it. “That’s all you managed to say to the greatest tenor sax player EVER???”
essa musica ai tem muito mais coisas do que parece... eu to ouvindo ela aqui e claramente pude ouvir algo como "this is how we play in new orleans" e " every line was made in a cicle of fifths" e olha que eu não sou la muito fluente em inglês. seria bom se alguem pudesse prestar mais atenção pq essa musica vai alem de um frazeado técnico. ela realmente tem uma mensagem que foi escrita em letra e essa letra foi transformada em uma musica, talvez uma inteligencia artificial consiga identificar isso atraves da aproximação da entonação vocal com as notas tocadas para simular a fala humana. eu realmente to impressionado. não tem muito como marcar o trecho pq é tudo muito rapido, mas eu to em 1:21 então tudo aconteceu uns 30 segundos atras no maximo.
I don't hear a big difference between this and the previous Stereo CD release. I have this album in mono on the Mono box set and Mofi Ultra Disc CD. Both of those releases sound great.
In my imagination, I hear the Roller Coaster climbing the hill ,one step at a time, and then coming back down and running the track at breakneck speed.
I analyze music for grins:>)) I decided to do an "Insinuated key" on each change from lead sheet on Giant Steps. I couldn't recall the tune, like you would, say, "fly me to the moon", but I knew I'd heard it. Not being a bebop fan, Coltrane can certainly whip it out. Stunning, but accompanying that is "getting into HIS head. Complexity is an understatement. Strictly for the brave. In respect to changes, I'm always seeking order. None here. I can safely say it's Major key centric, but no real key center. For a theory person, it's unique. I look for symmetry: changes are patternless, in 2,4,8 beat stretches of constant solo key change., all mixed up. As a music appreciation example, it's frenetic, breakneck speed, with nothing to attach your brain to, so listening is a challenge. If you need to sooth yourself, this is not the piece. Like the most difficult piece to a classicist, Giant Steps must be likewise to a jazz artist. I can dig it, but I don't necessarily dig it.
Understanding Coltrane is like understanding Slash or Beethoven. Coltrane took his horn everywhere with him. When he was at Miles' house he never put it down. Slash was the same. He took his guitar everywhere. He played in the bathroom without amps because it had acoustics. Only music my friends.
I just watched a video of some genius breaking this down...and I think I just had a breakdown...man, how Trane made all of those chords work is way beyond me...
The EQ is an improvement, not much but it's noticeable, it sounds a bit compressed which is to be expected and it depends on your personal preference whether or not that's a good thing (IMO leave the dynamis in a classic jazz recording like this)... But the panning... Hard panning has its place but why.... Wasn't the original master lost in the UMG fire? I'd assume they had a digital backup but still.
Universal lied about having digital backups. Almost everything was lost. That includes other Jazz greats like Wes Montgomery and Milt Jackson. A good amount of classics were also lost, like songs from Eydie gormé. Some 90s grunge, Alternative, and Hard Rock bands also had their masters destroyed.
@@SeanGonzalezMDHEXT you can't rate the wideness of a recording on youtube because youtube takes your record, make a pile of junk of it and then serves it to you.
@@mooncorp212 actually, it converts things to 256kbps Opus. That consumer audio codec has a transpareny rate of 128kbps, well below what yt serves. Also, you can stream this losslessly on Apple Music and tell that it really does just sound like this.
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One small step for John Coltrane, one giant step for Jazzkind.
I see what you're doing here with this comment, and I like it
I'm so baked rn.
Ya like Jazz?
I'd say a giant step for music in general.
Well said.
My left ear enjoyed this greatly
LOL
my right ear got its earwax removed
what kind of a remaster is this lol
Good thing my left ear can hear better than my right xD
I hate remasters that repan stuff too hard one way or the other, it makes my head feel lopsided
This song gave me a heart attack lol. The fact that A, the musicians were able to keep in sync with each other and B, the composer managed to make this work is really impressive.
John coltrane wrote it
They also recorded the studio version the day Coltrane gave them the chords - the fact that the bassist managed to keep this walking baseline going the whole time whilst staying in step at 288bpm is alien to me
its improvised
I’m trying to play this bitch and I’m in cardiac arrest
@@thomassmith1981 It wasn't first try tho... when transcribing the bassline is almost every time the same, so Mr. P.C. learned some basslines over time.
Tommy Flanagan: Hey, what key are we on?
John Coltrane: Yes.
Ok. Tommy redeemed himself. Check out his recording of Giant Steps Tommy made later in his career. I wouldn't want to have been the piano player on that date. Trane had time to work those changes out!
John: The key is # and the chord progression is ICCKKCK
Tommy: D:
LOL!!!! can't stop laughing
😂😂😂
Uh All
Props to the bass player and drummer - the TRUE MVPs of this song! NONSTOP!!
Does the piano not count 😭
they were all mvps lol
@@blaney1014 Actually, the pianist in this case does not a great job. Listen to it carefully and you´ll notice that he can´t keep up, and his solo is a bit lame compared to Coltrane´s. By the end of the song it sounds much better though. Just my humble opinion.
@@GordonLF Yes, a "humble" opinion, would Coltrane work with someone who couldn't keep up?
@ Tommy Flanagan was a great jazz pianist (arguably top 30 of all time) and although Coltrane alternated band members, I believe he wouldn’t have worked with him had he been someone who couldn’t fit the bill. In the case of this Giant Steps track, particularly at the beginning, and his solo, he struggles to be at Trane’s level.
Giant Steps but it's Giant Steps
Nice
@@Yorana9069 noice
best meme
@@JohnPaulBuce no doubt!
Full circle
Probably the best saxophone recording of all time. I have never gotten tired of this song and have listened since its debut. This is "One of My Favorite Things" for sure.
Yes it is quite 'Supreme'
Really gets me in a ‘sentimental mood’
It song good
Yo, stop it. You not slick 😂@chasethepig3975
You are not slick either then.
For those who don't understand the genius behind John's performance here. It's like switching between speaking FLUENT English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Korean, Hindi at every word. The level of understanding that Coltrane had of with these scales is just unparalleled.
while i understand his ingenuity, i dont think thats a good explanation for an average person
I'm sorry, but that's wildly exaggerated. A different scale is not the same as a completely other language. It's definitely hard to play this tune at the level Trane did, but that is not an apt comparison.
@@David34981 I’d be inclined to agree.
@@David34981 It’s accurate
@@MrSpeedyAce not really LOL
John Coltrane is by far the best saxophonist to have ever lived... Legendary
Best musician, maybe.
You are forgetting about Charlie Parker. Coltrane's playing was an extension of Parker's work.
@@Maningray1960 And let's not forget the underrated Mr. John Gilmore, tenor saxophonist in Sun Ra's troupe. Even John Coltrane said of him "I learned a lot from him".
Albert Ayler also seems to have influenced Trane, particularly for the "Ascension" album recorded in June 1965.
John Coltrane (t sax), Tommy Flanagan (p), Paul Chambers (b) and Art Taylor (d) in 1959.
My Pop once took a giant step down the stairs and ever since I've listening to this in his memory. 🕊🎷
"one giant step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
-gex
GEX? I LOVE GEX!
@@agarcjaydagreat8716 Note to self: don’t drink tap water at Jerry Garcia’s
never thought i’d live to see a gex comment in a giant steps video
@@kirboy1727 what do you mean? This is a GEX gameplay
It's tail time
What's even more amazing was that this was from the post-bebop era. It wasn't even close to as fast as what was being played from the late 1940's to the mid 1950's. And, by the way, I *LOVE* Tommy Flanagan's piano solo! It momentarily transports you from this insane, frenetic, fast-forward hellscape of Coltrane's masterfully-cacophonous saxophone solo, and into this slow-motion La-La Land of huge, rainbow-colored lollipops, sunbeams through the trees, and harp glissandos, only to be *SLAMMED* back into reality by Coltrane's jagged melodic lines incessantly bashing you about the head! What an absolute gem of a tune!
the bold on slammed cannot be expressed enough
Are you synaesthetic perchance? This is a very synaesthetic way of describing things, speaking as a synaesthetic, lol.
Well tbf, he was thrown in the deep end since he was given the sheet music on the day of therrecording while Coltrane spent 2 years practicing the song, so of course it'd sound slower 🤣
@@assassinzoldyck3943where did you hear this
@@tabor503 in my class, jazz history
bassist off to the right like “guys where are you?”
underrated comment
hey he's got the drums with him
😂😂😂😊
It’s amazing hearing this audio compared to the old audio. Sounds so clear.
Sadly with headphones I hear the piano and sax in my left ear, and the bass and percussion in my right hearphone.
@@casedistortedAs in Stereo? Or as in the mixing should be spread over L R instead of isolated?
@@jeffsirname That wouldn't be stereo... it's often called LCR mixing. It's not as common today, as it was in, say, the 60s.
For anyone that didn't realize, LCR means 'Left, Center, Right', and that means there's only three options for where a track is sent, in the final mix. And, you might have already noticed it on some tracks by The Beatles, or something.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894yeah, the Beatles used it a lot and it sounds horrible 😂
I can't even imagine world whiteout St. John Coltrane
Whiteout?
@@HowTo128 without
Trump tweets is what you got as the consolation prize.
well no memes for us then
An obvious typo-don't be a smart-ass-- show some respect to John Coltrane--
one of the greatest jazz improvisers who ever lived on this Earth
I loved driving around Liberty City at night while listening to Jazz Nation Radio and hearing this
How he manages to pack the entire city into four minutes of audio
Ain't it obvious?
*He takes Giant Steps.*
best comment i've ever read
I love this!! Have listened to Giant Steps thousands of time and I still get goosebumps when I realize how talented and hard-working Coltrane was.
The great ones die young!! Mr Trane saying u great is certifiable understatement
I can hear the remaster on the first note. So nice.
@@shanecombs1993 That's how they recorded it. 4 tracks were new back then and people either didn't know or couldn't do stereo the way people do it now, the Beatles, the Doors and the first Pink Floyd album did the same. If only they remastered the mono version of the album too.
100
A lot of people talk trash about the piano solo, but I never had an issue with it. I think it’s just dandy.
Agreed, I mean did the song need two soloist blazing 16th notes?
It’s just that they all had a hard time keeping up with each other but that’s what made it so glorious. The imprecision of jazz in this case combined with the circle of fifths. It’s insanely complex. Many people can’t absorb it all.
The piano player pretty much had the changes thrown in front of him and Trane counted it off.
It's McCoy Tyner, who's going to complain?
Andrew Halvorson Hello Andrew, Agree with you 100 %, I love Tommy Flanagan, solo on this track.
Peace to all.
If views and likes were determined by artistic merit and sheer musical majesty this would have been viewed and liked by every human on earth...multiple times.
n the early 1980's my wife and I were perusing albums at the tower records store in Brea California, and this album was playing on the sound system. We asked the clerk where we could find it in the stacks of albums, and they only had the one play on the turn table. We bought it straight off the turn table. I still have the album, and it is one of my favorites still! I bought a vinyl online to give to my grand daughter who is discovering vinyl. She is 17, and I'm sending her tons of vinyl of all my favorites as fast as I can find them. LOL
My wife is from Brea 🙂
A comment I made in response to a comment about people "trash talking" the piano solo:
I don't think it's trash talk to say he was completely out of his element in a manic set of key changes that he had no time to practice.
What really shows the depth of the pianist, and his understanding of jazz, is that even when thrown these elements that we couldn't possibly expect him to comprehend in such short order, and therefore unable to utilize the full range of his talents on the keys, he nevertheless found a way to counterpoint Coltrane's complexity with a set of staccato offbeat chords.
However, when he gets to the solo, and is standing on his own, he falters on several occasions. It's obvious that the chord changes flustered him and he couldn't grasp them( again, no trash talk, it's very simply true), and despite putting together a few flourishes, eventually he concedes that the subject is beyond him, and cedes the floor to the master.
None of this detracts from a few simple statements: that doesn't mean there was a pianist alive that could've done better than he did in his shoes. None of the flaws mar the solo in the sense that we are witnessing in improv the introduction and production of lines of jazz thought that still influence artists today, and that the pianist played a key role in that.
Two things can be true at once, and I think a lot of things are simultaneously true about this solo.
Oh, and that doesn't mean that people don't "trash talk" the solo either. It just means that an honest critique of the solo isn't necessarily trash talking the solo.
I kind of like the sporadic, jilted, softer piano sound that gives way to the voice of the saxophone. It creates a cool juxtaposition of voice and flavor.
@@J2HATMgoo | They probably did, and thought they'd also comment it for the rest of us to see.
dude we get it, you watched the vox video on it.
And the question is (I'll have to ask specialists): did Tommy Flanagan discover the song at the recording session, and I think he did, which shows his brilliance, or did Coltrane give him the sheet music a few days before?
I know most of the people who were involved in this recording. What I was told was that the pianist entered the studio; was handed the lead sheet; Coltrane counted it off; and, that's it. Sometimes geniuses have a hard time understanding that they are different from most people and that Tommy may be a genius but still be unable to see everything Coltrane saw.
It's easy to get enthralled by the sax, and rightfully so, but the drums are just as rediculous. I love it when he taps everybody to shut up so the piano can play.
i found that part funny
always gives me massive euphoria
Just noticed that 😳! love it !
Thanks for pointing that out. I heard it, right after I read it.
Right, and notice how he taps in perfect triplets
This is musical rope skipping to the beat, taking it to higher heights you are enjoying it so you keep moving to the beat, step by step...you feel alive, no change of pace...living music, timeless.
I bought this Album: Giant Steps, from Hime & Addison, record shop, John Dalton Street, Manchester, England, U.K.
in 1960. At that time I believe i had only copy in Manchester.
Never thought when I got home and listened to it would become
such a highly rated Jazz album in years to come.
I enjoyed album immediately.
Peace to all !!
Thanks for sharing, Alan. Fascinating story
@@luc4242 Thank you.
great story
@@yahweheavenThank you.
I bought this when I was fourteen when it came out. Changed my life forever!!😮
If they had put this on the Voyager Golden record, aliens would have contacted us long ago.
Only word is necessary to describe this tune.....BANGER!
I can still hear the rides in my right ear... its been a day
John is doing things here that cats are still trying to understand in 2024. Its like hearing someone from another world
The bass player is rock'n it!
Paul Chambers was likely the very best ever - at least he's my fav.
The first (known) recording of John Coltrane playing a sax is in Oahu, Hawaii, when he was in the Navy. There is some trivia for you.
It's about time. Welcome Brothers.
This gives me anxiety in such a good way it's very overwhelming but so good at the same time kudos to the pianist he improvised the best he could it damn he did a good job awesome record!!
One of the very difficult songs to imitate. It took me sometime to transcribe those notes.. Indeed they are giant steps.
Piano part starts at 3:10 accompanied by drum beats and my heart beats along 🎉
I love it love it love
I am writing this with Giant Steps ❤
everyone: this song is so difficult to follow!
me, a percussionist: 😎
me, a bassist: 😀
me, a both: 😐
me, a tenor saxophonist: 😭
me, a pianist: 😱
me, a producer: 😈
How much remastering can be done without the tapes? These were probably burned in the fire at UMG sadly.
Fantastic remastering by rhino Atlantic records.keep supporting jazz music people
They did burn up. My Favorite Things was lost too. This is just a retooling of a digital backup they made before the fire from a previous remaster.
Such a tragic loss--thinking about that fire that happened a few years back- we lost some of the world's greatest masterpieces- but be thankful that we have the technology-- reproduced copies of remasters of remasters- so to speak- The Works are still here for us to enjoy forever--🎵
I've stepped upon a lego of perfection.
Magnificent yet so pure
Yes.
Masterpiece 🎶 Blessed RIP 🕊 John Coltrane
Cant believe this is 60 Years old Sounds great. especially the Sax.
This is why I love Jazz
Some musical conversations are juvenile! And that's ok but some are cosmic. Some push the boundaries! The gospel of John
Can someone help It sounds like random notes
How the devil have I not heard this before?
This tune tickles the brain in a most delightful way.
That feeling of adrenaline when your late to school/ work😅
Mind is blown. No clue how a human could solo over those chord changes...
Coltrane’s solo is more than the sum of the parts…….his sound…desperation? … an icon…
Can’t front, possibly my favorite from him. Hooked from the start, never lets up.
The Greats Came, Played, And Planted The Tree's Of Ever Lasting Jazz😊
For people trash talking the pianist you try improvising changing from key to key all over the circle of fifths and playing at almost 300 bpm, you try to do that
Pretty obviously Coltrane worked on this for months, then calls the guys together in hurry to record, not fair to Flanagan, who is a monster player.
@@zdogg8 yeah it is very, but non the less it’s a very challenging song to improvise too and fun to listen too
It's the cycle of thirds, not fifths. Very unusual. That's why it's so hard.
@@zdogg8 I have read that they had extra time in the recording studio so they filled it up with a Slominsky exercise that John hadn't intended to record. He didn't like the result and almost never played on stage.
@@Frisbieinstein it gets easy when you understand the patterns like hoe there’s a bunch of 2-5-1s in there, there you can just use the diatonic harmony of the changes
Whoa this drop fire!!! 🔥 Hope he is still making music ❤🙏
I've known about this guy for a very long time but never dipped my toe in now I have I won't be leaving
I’ve always wondered what the name of this song is. I dont know instrumental jazz well but my grand parents played it when i was very young and I’ve heard it since i was a little boy. Finally i asked my iPhone when
it came on ther jazz show on the NPR station ! Got it now!
Your grandparents are crazy
my right ear is loving this bass
This music is GOLD, fight me it’s gold!!?
There's a fantastic little video mini doc on YT about the first recording of this and the epic challenges for the pianist. It's from vox so it'll be on their channel. Fantastic music! ❤
I have read that they had extra time in the recording studio so they filled it up with a Slominsky exercise that John hadn't intended to record. That's why it was new to Tommy. John never or almost never played GS on stage.
Paul Chambers! There is a reason Coltrane wrote Mr PC. Who else could play this music and make it sound so flowing and natural. THE best walking bassist the world has ever seen.
Mr. Coltrane is a madman
It's still a Master Piece!
Today Commemorates John Coltrane's 95th Birthday
Mr. P.C., is so fucking incredible! Eric Johnson also does an incredible rendition of this iconic Coltrane musical 🎼 sketch... 🎷 🎸
what a banger man, love it
it seems people are losing sight of what a 'banger; is. you arent he only person who wrote this, and this is genius, smooth, cerebral and clinical and divine, but a 'banger' it is not.
@@timn4481 of all the comments, why me, but ok 😃👍
John Worked Soooo Hard to Learn...He Over came Sooo Much...Sooo Much to be Able.
Great song ❤
Amazing album, noice
If you hear jazz, you know i’m coming for you.
Small leaps by Johnathan Coltranius
Quintessential bop.
Wish I smoked then went into a smoky bar in NYC to witness the genius of John Coltrane.
My father, 18 years old at the time, walked into a club in NYC where Coltrane was playing. Maybe a dozen people were there. In between sets, Coltrane bellied up next to my father at the bar and asked this young kid how he was doing. My father was terrified. 😂 He managed to say, “Nice set.” Coltrane bought him his next drink. To this day, I give my father a hard time about it. “That’s all you managed to say to the greatest tenor sax player EVER???”
@@AFields760 Awesome. Good luck to ya!
Have to love the dopamine and anxiety combo this creates.
Only good thing that came out of 2020 and it ain’t from 2020
Amazing Sound
Grande mestre Coltrane !!!
I love this song!
essa musica ai tem muito mais coisas do que parece... eu to ouvindo ela aqui e claramente pude ouvir algo como "this is how we play in new orleans" e " every line was made in a cicle of fifths" e olha que eu não sou la muito fluente em inglês. seria bom se alguem pudesse prestar mais atenção pq essa musica vai alem de um frazeado técnico. ela realmente tem uma mensagem que foi escrita em letra e essa letra foi transformada em uma musica, talvez uma inteligencia artificial consiga identificar isso atraves da aproximação da entonação vocal com as notas tocadas para simular a fala humana. eu realmente to impressionado. não tem muito como marcar o trecho pq é tudo muito rapido, mas eu to em 1:21 então tudo aconteceu uns 30 segundos atras no maximo.
Diste en la tecla
"A MASTERPIECE" NO IFFS, OR BUT'S NOR MAYBE'S!
I don't hear a big difference between this and the previous Stereo CD release. I have this album in mono on the Mono box set and Mofi Ultra Disc CD. Both of those releases sound great.
very very good lp......................................................................................................
F in chat for the pianist
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Can we just give it up for the bassman tho? Dude never falters once.
You did your best, that’s all that matters
RIP John Coltrane (John William Coltrane, 23/9/1926 - 17/7/1967) 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
"On a scale from 1 to 10, how are you feeling?"
Me:
Me: the piano solo
Amo 💗
In my imagination, I hear the Roller Coaster climbing the hill ,one step at a time, and then coming back down and running the track at breakneck speed.
After many years, I finally am able to play this on upright bass. I have no clue how you cats on sax, piano, or whatever solo over this.
Masterpiece!
Brings back memories of college….
I analyze music for grins:>)) I decided to do an "Insinuated key" on each change from lead sheet on Giant Steps. I couldn't recall the tune, like you would, say, "fly me to the moon", but I knew I'd heard it. Not being a bebop fan, Coltrane can certainly whip it out. Stunning, but
accompanying that is "getting into HIS head. Complexity is an understatement. Strictly for the brave.
In respect to changes, I'm always seeking order. None here. I can safely say it's Major key centric, but no real key center. For a theory person, it's unique. I look for symmetry: changes are patternless, in 2,4,8 beat stretches of constant solo key change., all mixed up.
As a music appreciation example, it's frenetic, breakneck speed, with nothing to attach your brain to, so listening is a challenge. If you need to sooth yourself, this is not the piece. Like the most difficult piece to a classicist, Giant Steps must be likewise to a jazz artist.
I can dig it, but I don't necessarily dig it.
G I A N T S T E P S
Large Leg Movements
massive struts
He bought the whole sax so he's using the whole sax
Understanding Coltrane is like understanding Slash or Beethoven.
Coltrane took his horn everywhere with him.
When he was at Miles' house he never put it down.
Slash was the same. He took his guitar everywhere. He played in the bathroom without amps because it had acoustics.
Only music my friends.
I just watched a video of some genius breaking this down...and I think I just had a breakdown...man, how Trane made all of those chords work is way beyond me...
what was the video you watched?
A LOT better remaster this time. Thanks.
The EQ is an improvement, not much but it's noticeable, it sounds a bit compressed which is to be expected and it depends on your personal preference whether or not that's a good thing (IMO leave the dynamis in a classic jazz recording like this)...
But the panning... Hard panning has its place but why....
Wasn't the original master lost in the UMG fire? I'd assume they had a digital backup but still.
You can't rate that on UA-cam. UA-cam compresses sounds badly.
@@mooncorp212 compression as in waveform compression. Not audio compression.
Universal lied about having digital backups. Almost everything was lost. That includes other Jazz greats like Wes Montgomery and Milt Jackson. A good amount of classics were also lost, like songs from Eydie gormé. Some 90s grunge, Alternative, and Hard Rock bands also had their masters destroyed.
@@SeanGonzalezMDHEXT you can't rate the wideness of a recording on youtube because youtube takes your record, make a pile of junk of it and then serves it to you.
@@mooncorp212 actually, it converts things to 256kbps Opus. That consumer audio codec has a transpareny rate of 128kbps, well below what yt serves. Also, you can stream this losslessly on Apple Music and tell that it really does just sound like this.