A 1961 release recorded when Coltrane was moving away from hard-bop and closer to free-form compositions, just prior when he was getting experimental. It featured pianist McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones as drummer working with Coltrane for the first time, and Steve Davis on bass. If "A Love Supreme" and "Blue Train" are the saxaphonist's best albums, then "My Favorite Things" has to rank a close third. This is definitely a jazz classic. Best tracks are the nearly 14 minutes of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music" with Coltrane on soprano saxophone and a lengthy uptempo version of "Summertime" with Coltrane switching to tenor sax. "Everytime We Say Goodbye" is a beautiful ballad and the last piece, "But Not For Me" is one of the all-time Gershwin favorites, the quartet deliver also a first-rate reading of this jazz standard. If you are interested in Coltrane and you don't know where to begin, you should start with this album, instead of the free-form albums like "A Love Supreme", you won't be disappointed. In CD format, just buy the original Atlantic 4-pieces regular version, sound quality is superior.Read full review
it the product is ok but cannot get the "summertime" melody on it, Four tracks but the summertime is missing it seems
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Classic Coltrane, My Favorite Things, McCoy Tyner on keys, what's better? I've heard theses tunes hundreds of times and its still fresh and I hear new things with each playing....
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Great sounding CD
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ive herd he was great jazz, and they where wright.
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