John Coltrane, “Giant Steps”
From The Guardian’s “50 great moments in jazz” series:
Giant Steps, an astonishing tenor-saxophone improvisation Coltrane recorded in 1959, has been a model for aspiring sax players ever since, but it’s far more than a technical exercise, pointing the way toward the lava-flows of scales and runs that the critic Ira Gitler famously described as “sheets of sound”.
