My Favorite Things

Product Details

Artist : John Coltrane
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075678134623
Label : Atlantic
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1987-06-29
UPC : 075678134623

ASIN : B000002I53

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. My Favorite Things
2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
3. Summertime
4. But Not for Me

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

This 1960 recording was a landmark album in John Coltrane's career, the first to introduce his quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones and the first release on which he played soprano saxophone. It also provided him with a signature hit, as his new group conception came together wonderfully on the title track. It's an extended modal reworking in 6/4 time that brought the hypnotic pulsating quality of Indian music into jazz for the first time, with Coltrane's soprano wailing over the oscillating piano chords and pulsing drums. The unusual up-tempo version of Gershwin's "Summertime" is a heated example of Coltrane's "sheets of sound" approach to conventional changes, while "But Not for Me" receives a radical harmonic makeover. This is an excellent introduction to Coltrane's work. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews

Middle Ground (2006-12-21)

To me, this album is the middle ground between an album like "Lush Life" and an album like "A Love Supreme". The title track can get pretty out there with John's soprano sax lines (in my opinion, McCoy Tyner sounds much too conservative on this track) but it is all firmly melodic and tonal. Plus, it has got one of my favorite expressions on any instrument I have ever heard (listen around 1:10 into the Title Track). The next track, "Everytime We Say Goodbye", is more mellow, and closer to "Lush Life". Great bathtub listening.The next track is the quartet's interpretation of "Summertime". This is a more atonal affair, and closer to what fans of the more out-there stuff will enjoy. I like to think of the final two tracks as a mini-suite, "Summertime, But not for Me." The whole album really does work as a suite, and a very gorgeous one. Reccomended for anyone dipping their toes cautiously into the avant-garde.

Beautiful (2005-09-22)

Well, as a "seasoned jazz collector," whatever that means... I can tell you also as a tenor player that the version of Summertime is amazing. Also, if jb had ever tried to play over Trane's reharmonization of "But Not For Me" he would know that this album is heavy, as well as beautiful.

Arguments aside, this album is beautiful and at $7, you just can't go wrong.

Three stars is Fair, Five is too much! (2004-05-01)

If you only own 20 jazz albums you probably feel that you have covered the many bases of this music. But just listen to Coltrane's Impulse, or Prestige recordings!! It's as though John's Atlantic material was the precursor to his greatest work- Love Supreme, Crescent, w/ Duke .E, all on Impulse. His work with Miles for Colombia Records isn't too bad either! This record is OK, more for the romantic listener than the seasoned jazz collector. As another reviewer said, it's an easy introduction to jazz music; enough said. cheers- jb

Perfect (2004-02-23)

This is a wonderful CD in so many ways. If you are not a lover of jazz, this would be a great introduction to the genre. Coltrane is one the greatest jazz musicians of all time and Elvin Jones is arguably in the top two or three greatest jazz drummers. Really a perfect CD.

My Favorite Things; My Favorite Album!!! (2004-02-21)

My Favorite Things is my favorite album. The first track, My Favorite Things cooks. McCoy takes the first solo, but soon after comes in Trane takin down the house. The first song is 15 minutes of swingin avant garde jazz. Trane and his men take a whole new spin on But Not For Me, and Summertime just plain swings. (there's a ballad isn't there?) This is also the album that gave drummer Elvin Jones the recognition that he needed to soon be one of the most influential drummers of the sixties. This a landemark album, with killer material. Two words for you- BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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