Giant Steps
Massive forward bounds
Giant Steps is a 1960 jazz album by John Coltrane, widely regarded as a landmark in jazz history.
The title track's rapid chord changes—cycling through three keys—revolutionized harmonic complexity in jazz improvisation.
Musicians still use Giant Steps changes or Coltrane changes to describe this challenging harmonic pattern.
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- Coltrane"Giant Steps" musician
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- leapsShort springing motions
- saxophoneReed instrument, brass body
- strideExtended single footstep
John Coltrane · bounds · huge · massive · enormous · colossal · progression · chords · bebop · chord changes · interval · Atlantic Records · leap · towering · milestone · breakthrough · monumental · big shoes
Giant Stepsbaby steps
Cautious incremental progress
small steps · crawling · mincing steps · tiptoeing · slow and steady
Giant Stepsnursery rhyme
Traditional poem for young children
easy listening · smooth jazz · elevator music · Kind of Blue
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