Home / Music / John Coltrane wrote 'Naima' in 1959 for Giant StepsMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneJohn Coltrane wrote 'Naima' in 1959 for Giant Steps“Naima” was composed by John Coltrane in 1959 and recorded on December 2, 1959, at Atlantic Studios in New York for his album Giant Steps. 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 balladsExploreÉliane Radigue's Buchla Concerts 1976Jimmy Smith revolutionized the Hammond B-3 on Midnight SpecialSoup for Tony is the act behind Tony the TigerEric Clapton's Trouble in MindJoe Satriani's Unplugged and SeatedPrevious Journey recorded Hydra at Sunset Sound and Reggie Fisher's studio in LANext Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote and produced 'Soul Man' at Stax