John Coltrane

INCLUDES FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD

PLUS 1 BONUS TRACK

PERSONNEL:

JOHN COLTRANE, tenor & soprano sax
McCOY TYNER, piano
STEVE DAVIS, bass
ELVIN JONES, drums

New York, October 21 (A1), October 24 (track B1)
& October 26 (tracks A2 & B2), 1960.

*BONUS TRACK (B3):
John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Steve Davis (b), Billy Higgins (d).
Los Angeles, September 8, 1960.

Original sessions produced by NESUHI ERTEGUN.

SIDE A:

1 MY FAVORITE THINGS
2 EVERYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE

SIDE B:

1 SUMMERTIME
2 BUT NOT FOR ME
3 LIKE SONNY*

"My Favorite Things”, the title tune, belongs to Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II's play The Sound of Music. The original stage production of The Sound of Music opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontane Theatre on November 16, 1959. Prior to Coltrane's reading it had already been recorded in a jazz setting by Benny Goodman. Goodman's tentet album of the score from the Broadway musical would be recorded merely four days after the play's stage debut on November 20. Although nearly all of the show's compositions became popular tunes, “My Favorite Things” would also become a jazz standard. Goodman's recording was the first knownjazz version of the tune, which would be interpreted later by many other jazzmen. However, its popularity in the jazz world can hardly be attributed to Benny Goodman, who wouldn't record the song again after making his album. It was John Coltrane who brought the song to the attention of the jazz world with the reading contained here, recorded on October 21, 1960.