John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1976 Japanese Atlantic Stereo LP)

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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things | Vinyl LP - 1976 Japanese Atlantic Stereo Reissue (P-7505A, Pick Up Your Music / Jazz-Forever Excellent, Warner-Pioneer Corporation)

Nesuhi Ertegun signed Coltrane to Atlantic in 1959 and recorded him across two years and several sessions. This album, recorded in October 1960, was the one that reached the widest audience. The quartet at this point had Steve Davis on bass (Jimmy Garrison would arrive the following year), Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on Piano. Both Jones and Tyner had already been working with Coltrane for several months.

The title track is what the album is built on. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "My Favorite Things" for the 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music. Coltrane recorded it about twelve months after it opened. He plays it on soprano saxophone, an instrument he had only recently taken up after hearing Steve Lacy's playing. Tyner's right hand plays the waltz melody against a bass vamp from his left while Coltrane improvises above, the 3/4 time held throughout even as the harmony opens up. The recording ran thirteen minutes and forty seconds and Atlantic released it as an LP track, not a single. It became Coltrane's best-selling record.

"Everytime We Say Goodbye" is Cole Porter's 1944 ballad, Coltrane remaining on soprano, the approach more restrained than the title track. Side B switches to tenor. "Summertime" is the Gershwin and DuBose Heyward piece from Porgy and Bess (1935), at eleven and a half minutes the longest improvisation on the album after the title track, Coltrane working through the melody with considerably more freedom than he had used on the soprano pieces. "But Not for Me" closes the record, also on tenor, the Gershwin and Gershwin standard from Girl Crazy (1930).

This is the 1976 Japanese Atlantic stereo reissue (P-7505A), manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation.