My Favorite Things - John Coltrane

My Favorite Things is a 1961 jazz album by John Coltrane. It is considered by many jazz critics and listeners to be a highly significant and historic recording. It was the first session recorded by Coltrane on the Atlantic...

My Favorite Things is a 1961 jazz album by John Coltrane. It is
considered by many jazz critics and listeners to be a highly
significant and historic recording. It was the first session
recorded by Coltrane on the Atlantic label, the first to introduce
his new quartet featuring McCoy Tyner (Piano), Elvin Jones (Drums)
and Steve Davis (Bass) - neither Jimmy Garrison nor Reggie Workman
featured as yet. It is classed as another album in which Coltrane
made a break free of bop, introducing complex harmonic reworkings of
such songs as My Favorite Things, and But Not For Me. Additionally,
at a time when the soprano saxophone was considered obsolete, it
demonstrated Coltranes further investigation of the instruments
capabilities in a jazz idiom. The standard Summertime is notable for
its upbeat, searching feel, a demonstration of Coltranes sheets of
sound, a stark antithesis to Miles Daviss melancholy, lyrical
version on Porgy and Bess. But Not For Me is reharmonised using the
famous Coltrane changes, and features an extended coda over a
repeated ii-VI-vi progression. The track is a modal rendition of
the Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammersteins seminal song My Favorite
Things from The Sound of Music. The melody is heard numerous times
throughout the almost 14-minute version, and instead of soloing over
the written chord changes, both Tyner and Coltrane taking extended
solos over vamps of the two tonic chords, E minor and E major.
Tyners solo is famous for being