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Release Date
1 January 1960
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Length
4 tracks
My Favorite Things is the seventh studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in March 1961 on Atlantic Records. It was the first album to feature Coltrane playing soprano saxophone. An edited version of the title track became a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 on radio. The record became a major commercial success.
Background
In March 1960, while on tour in Europe, Miles Davis purchased a soprano saxophone for Coltrane. While the instrument had been used in the early days of jazz (notably by Sidney Bechet) it had become rare by the 1950s with the exception of Steve Lacy. Intrigued by its capabilities, Coltrane began playing it at his summer club dates.
After leaving the Davis band, Coltrane, for his first regular bookings at New York's Jazz Gallery in the summer of 1960, assembled the first version of the John Coltrane Quartet. The lineup settled by autumn with McCoy Tyner on piano, Steve Davis on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. Sessions the week before Halloween at Atlantic Studios yielded the track "Village Blues" for Coltrane Jazz and the entirety of this album along with the tracks that Atlantic later assembled into Coltrane Plays the Blues (1962) and Coltrane's Sound (1964).
According to Lewis Porter's biography, Coltrane described "My Favorite Things" as "my favorite piece of all those I have recorded".
Personnel:
John Coltrane – soprano saxophone on side one and bonus tracks; tenor saxophone on side two
McCoy Tyner – piano
Steve Davis – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Production personnel:
Nesuhi Ertegün — production
Tom Dowd, Phil Iehle — engineering
Lee Friedlander — photography
Loring Eutemey — cover design
Bill Coss — liner notes
Bob Carlton, Patrick Milligan — reissue supervision
Bill Inglot, Dan Hersch — digital remastering
Rachel Gutek — reissue design
Hugh Brown — reissue art direction
Nat Hentoff — reissue liner notes
Steven Chean — reissue editorial supervision
Ted Myers, Elizabeth Pavone — reissue editorial coordination
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