Home / Music / Giant Steps was Coltrane's first album of entirely original compositionsMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneGiant Steps was Coltrane's first album of entirely original compositionsGiant Steps was John Coltrane’s first LP made up entirely of his own compositions. Every track on the album came from his pen alone. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesCrescent is Coltrane at his most melodic — a calm before the free-jazz stormNaima was recorded with Miles Davis's rhythm section, not Coltrane's usual bandColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsExploreStevie Nicks' debut solo album Bella Donna hit number oneThe Fall's Grotesque hit number one on the UK Independent ChartPhaedra went gold in seven countries without radio airplayFact magazine called Selected Ambient Works 85–92 the best album of the 1990s'What's Love Got to Do with It' won Record of the YearPrevious Grandmaster Flash mixed with three turntablesNext Giant Steps was Coltrane's first album as a leader for Atlantic Records