Blue Trane, or Giant Steps
 

Which do you like better?

I dont have giant steps been looking for it, but i LOVE blue trane!

Giant Steps.

It was so important. The tune Giant Steps is still one that young bebopers still struggle with. The chord changes are so radical.

I love radical changes. I'm a musician myself. I just wrote a piece where the main figure changes from I to VII+ to v6 to iv9 6. It's arpeggiated and it has a genuine chill to it when played on a xylophone.

Nice. I love it when you talk in chords!

Giant Steps still blows my mind!

Blue train is the more classic album in my opinion, with guys like Lee Morgan and JJ Johnson & Philly Joe appearing. But Giant Steps definitely has the gems, like the title track (despite the sucky piano solo), the ever-beautiful Naima, and cook-offs like Mr PC and Countdown.

You gotta excuse the piano solo on this one. He thought the song was a ballad when he saw the chord changes. Who could have known it was an uptempo tune? I sure would not have wanted that song sprung on me at a recording session.

It was a quantum leap (giant step) harmonically.

Giant Steps is crazy (in a good way), so I prefer it.

Quite the decision, but I think I have to go with Blue Train on this one.

Giant Steps is considered one of, if not the greatest, jazz albums, so it is difficult not to credit it as Coltrane's best. However, A Love Supreme is my favorite Coltrane album. A true testament of his brilliance.

A Love Supreme Is my fave too. These three albums are distinctly different. Giant Steps is very much what most people come to associate with coltrane's style: slightly free-form and very "modal". Blue Train is really bluesy and probably the most accessible of all his work. A Love Supreme is beyond definition, very spiritual and transcendental.

They, as in Coltrane and the production, did a very good job at distinguishing that Coltrane was not simply a one genre jazz artist; he is able to pick up a unique and unusual style for each form of jazz he plays.

Some of the sessions from Africa are immense.

Giant Steps fo' sho'.

Giant Steps