Giant Steps - The book

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Just read this at Dave Wild´s Coltrane website:

Giant Steps--The Book

Yasuhiro Fujioka’s John Coltrane Discography quickly became the standard Coltrane discography upon its release in 1995, replacing the by-then outdated The Recordings of John Coltrane: A Discography (by David Wild). But nine years is a long time in the life of a discography; much new material has been discovered, with new releases, reissues, compilations of alternate takes, and more accurate information.

Work is now well underway on a successor to Fuji’s first edition. But the new work will be much more than just a second edition of the discography. Fuji’s "Syndicate" (originally Fuji, Wolf Schmaler and Michel Delorme, later joined by David Wild as Michel took a less active role) has joined forces with chronologist Chris DeVito and Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter in a project to produce the ultimate Coltrane reference work. In fact, that's the current title of the book: Giant Steps: The Ultimate John Coltrane Reference Work.

The "Quintet" is hard at work on the book, which now looks to be published early in 2007 by Routledge. A complete and up-to-the-minute discography will be supported and greatly enhanced by an exhaustive chronology, with excerpts from reports and reviews, copies of advertisements, and never-before-seen photos. Watch this space for more details on this project as they become available. (June 27, 2005)

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