Jimmy Cobb and Wynton Kelly replaced Art Taylor and Tommy Flanagan for a song on this album named for the leader's wife, "Naima.
One track on this album is an attempt to describe "a very earthy, folksy, swinging person," according to the song's writer. During this album's first session, Lex Humphries played drums and Cedar Walton played piano. This album's title track uses the keys of B major, G major, and E flat major to create an augmented triad and divides the octave into major thirds in an example of its leader's namesake "changes." Jimmy Cobb and Wynton Kelly replaced Art Taylor and Tommy Flanagan for a song on this album named for the leader's wife, "Naima." The song "Mr. P.C." is a tribute to bassist Paul Chambers, who played with this album's saxophonist under Miles Davis on Kind of Blue immediately prior to the recording of this album. For 10 points, what 1960 album by John Coltrane is named for its use of unusually spaced chord progressions?
One track on this album is an attempt to describe "a very earthy, folksy, swinging person," according to the song's writer.
Giant Steps