Giant Steps RBDVD14 Hutchings’s tenor cuts a path

Hutchings’s tenor cuts a path between melodicism and “out” playing

Ozan Kouklé

McRae reimagines pop standards like “I Won’t Last a Day Without You” (Carpenters) and “New York State of Mind” (Billy Joel) as soulful

produced and mixed by Armon-Jones

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Giant Steps RBDVD14 Hutchings’s tenor cuts a pathReleased in January 1960, John Coltrane's first album devoted entirely to his own compositions confirmed his towering command of tenor saxophone and his emerging power as a composer. Apprenticeships with Dizzy, Miles, and Monk had helped focus his furious, expansive solos, and his stamina and underlying sense of harmonic adventure brought Coltrane, at 33, to a new cusp. The polytonal "sheets of sound" that distinguished his marathon solos were offset