Giant Steps (track)
by John Coltrane
Giant Steps appears on the following album(s) by John Coltrane:
- Giant Steps (track #1) (this album) (1960)
- The Very Best Of John Coltrane (track #1) (compilation) (2000)
- The Best Of John Coltrane (track #3) (compilation) (1970)
- The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (track #18) (compilation) (1995)
- Golden Disk (track #7) (compilation) (2014)
- The Atlantic Years In Mono (track #1) (compilation) (2016)
- The Art Of John Coltrane / The Atlantic Years (track #9) (compilation) (1973)
- The Last Giant: The John Coltrane Anthology (track #16) (compilation) (1993)
- Trane: The Atlantic Collection (track #4) (compilation) (2017)
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| ! | 01/12/2026 05:51 | sunnydhamm | 18,449 | 57/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 18:31 | bonnequestion | 16,292 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 20:29 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,721 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/01/2025 16:56 |  DommeDamian | 73,168 | 51/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 10:41 | SD100852 | 11,238 | 77/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 87.9/100, a mean average of 88.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.4.
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The sax work is really wonderful. The piano is a clunk in the song, actually, as sympathetic as you can feel towards the player. Good track. The first seconds are highly addictive.
Onater 08/05/2017 22:53 | #195588
I have many a bad memory of stepping up at a jam only for someone to call this song. At that point, your best bet is to play random notes really fast and hope nobody notices.
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