John Coltrane - Giant Steps: 60th Anniversary Edition review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

The Guardian 80

(Rhino)
This celebratory reissue includes outtakes that confirm the original’s brilliance and the sense of a genius in transition

Within the same few weeks in the spring of 1959, the great saxophonist and composer John Coltrane astonishingly found the composure to play a key role on one of the most thoughtful and spacious of all jazz albums – Miles Davis’s iconic Kind of Blue – and the virtuosity and fearless insight to record one of the fastest and most intense, his own game-changing Giant Steps.