Evolution: The Road to Giant Steps

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Trane's Blues
  8:37
• 2
  Tenor Madness
  12:03
• 3
  Tenor Conclave
  11:05
• 4
  'round Midnight
  5:55
  3.7 ★
• 5
  Soultrane
  5:18
• 6
  All the Things You Are
  10:14
• 7
  Dakar
  7:11
• 8
  Cattin
  7:23
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Bakai
  8:44
• CD 2
• 1
  The Way You Look Tonight
  8:23
• 2
  Straight Street
  6:20
• 3
  Chronic Blues
  8:15
• 4
  I Hear a Rhapsody
  5:58
• 5
  Epistrophy
  10:45
• 6
  Ruby, My Dear
  6:20
• 7
  Trane's Slow Blues
  6:03
• 8
  Like Someone in Love
  4:57
• 9
  Traneing In
  12:36
• 10
  Locomotion
  7:13
• CD 3
• 1
  Blue Train
  10:39
• 2
  Billie's Bounce
  9:26
• 3
  Milestones
  5:42
• 4
  Russian Lullaby
  5:35
• 5
  Freight Trane
  7:19
• 6
  On Green Dolphin Street
  9:55
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Dial Africa
  8:44
• 8
  So What
  9:22
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Flamenco Sketches
  9:27
  4.2 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Giant Steps
  4:43
  3.3 ★
• 2
  Cousin Mary
  5:45
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Countdown
  2:21
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Spiral
  5:56
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Syeeda's Song Flute
  7:00
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Naima
  4:21
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Mr. P.C.
  6:57
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Interview (August Blume 1958)
  22:39
• 9
  Interview (Carl Lindgren 1960)
  6:33
• 10
  Interview (Michiel de Ruyter 1962)
  6:01
• 11
  Interview (Michiel de Ruyter 1965)
  6:28

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Release credits

• Al Cohn
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1.9, 2.2-4]
• Alfred Lion
  producer [2.10, 3.1]
• Ali Jackson
  double bass [7]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 1.6]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [1.3, 1.7, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 2.7-9, 4.1-5, 4.7]
• August Blume
  spoken vocals [8]
• Bill Evans
  piano [6, 8-9]
• Bob Weinstock
  producer [1.2-3, 1.9, 2.2-3, 2.9, 3.2]
• Cannonball Adderley
  alto saxophone [3, 6, 8-9]
• Carl Lindgren
  spoken vocals [9]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [7]
• Coleman Hawkins
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Curtis Fuller
  trombone [2.10, 3.1, 3.7]
• Donald Byrd
  trumpet [2]
• Doug Watkins
  double bass [7]
• Earl May
  double bass [7-8]
• Ed Thigpen
  drums (drum set) [1.8, 2.1]
• Fred Plaut
  recording [8-9]
• George Avakian
  producer [4]
• George Joyner
  double bass [2]
• Gigi Gryce
  alto saxophone [5]
• Hank Mobley
  tenor saxophone [3, 6]
• Idrees Sulieman
  trumpet [1]
• Irving Townsend
  producer [8-9]
• Jack Higgins
  recording [6]
• Jimmy Cobb
  drums (drum set) [4.6, 3.5-6, 3.8-9]
• John Coltrane
  guest [2], spoken vocals [8-11], tenor saxophone [3.1-9, 1.1-9, 4.1-7, 2.1-10]
• John Simmons
  double bass [5]
• Johnny Griffin
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Johnny Splawn
  trumpet [2.2-3, 1.9]
• Julian Euell
  double bass [2.1, 1.8]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [5]
• Kenny Drew
  piano [3.1, 2.10]
• Lee Morgan
  trumpet [1.6, 3.1, 2.10]
• Mal Waldron
  piano [1.7-8, 2.1-3]
• Michiel de Ruyter
  spoken vocals [10-11]
• Miles Davis
  trumpet [1.1, 1.4, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8-9]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [1-7]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [6]
• Ozzie Cadena
  producer [7]
• Paul Chambers
  double bass [4.1-7, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9, 2.2-4, 2.9-10, 3.1, 3.3-6, 3.8-9]
• Paul Quinichette
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [7]
• Phil Iehle
  recording [1-7]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.3, 2.10, 1.1-2, 1.4-5]
• Ray Copeland
  trumpet [5]
• Raymond Moore
  recording [4]
• Red Garland
  conductor [2], piano [3.2-4, 2.4, 2.9, 1.1-4, 1.9]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [2.1-4, 2.7-10, 1.2-3, 1.5, 1.7-9, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.7]
• Sahib Shihab
  alto saxophone [1], baritone saxophone [1.9, 2.1-3]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Sonny Rollins
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Tadd Dameron
  piano [5]
• Teddy Charles
  producer [7]
• Teo Macero
  producer [6]
• Thelonious Monk
  piano [5-6]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [1-7]
• Tommy Flanagan
  piano [3.5, 3.7, 4.1-5, 4.7]
• Wilbur Harden
  flugelhorn [7]
• Wilbur Ware
  double bass [5-6]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [1.6, 4.6]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [3]
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Issues

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  Evolution: The Road to Giant Steps

  4x CD
  2011