My Favorite Things | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $6.08
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 2391
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1361
UPC: 075678134623
EAN: 0075678134623
ASIN: B000002I53
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new-factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | My Favorite Things - John Coltrane, Rodgers, Richard | | • | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - John Coltrane, Porter, Cole | | • | Summertime - John Coltrane, Gershwin, George | | • | But Not for Me - John Coltrane, Gershwin, Ira |
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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
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Original vs. Bootleg Clarification January 3, 2009
bostonears (Lincoln, MA United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The same reviews and comments appear on Amazon's listings for different versions of Coltrane's My Favorite Things, so there's some confusion with respect to the real album and a bootleg recording with the same name but of a different recording session. Click the links in here to see what's what.
The "original" version of this album has on its cover a blue background and a waist-length picture of Coltrane holding a soprano sax. My Favorite Things, original version link. It contains four songs:
1. My Favorite Things
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye
3. Summertime
4. But Not For Me
This is the version to which my five star rating applies.
And there is a "deluxe" edition of the original album, with a gray cover and a small insert picture of the original album art. My Favorite Things [Deluxe Edition]. Plus there are import versions of the original album, with the original cover art surrounded by a purple square border. My Favorite Things, import version link. All of those contain a total of six songs, including the original four, plus extras My Favorite Things, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2.
The "bootleg" version people are referring to is presumably the one that has a swirly gray background on its cover art and a close up picture of Coltrane, with the words "Fourstar Masters of Jazz". My Favorite Things, bootleg MP3 link. That album contains six songs:
1. My Favorite Things
2. Blue Train
3. Impressions
4. Spiritual
5. Naima
6. Traneing In
That album is currently available only as MP3 download. (It says it is also available in CD format, but if you click that link within the MP3 listing, you get the original CD, not one that corresponds to this bootleg recording.) The sound quality of the bootleg is noticeably inferior to the original album recording. And, of course, the bootleg isn't even the same music.
There is also a "legitimate" live album called My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport, which has a cover with a black background and contains six tracks:
1. I Want To Talk About You
2. My Favorite Things
3. Impressions
4. Spoken Introduction
5. One Down, One Up
6. My Favorite Things
Most of these versions are available as both CDs and MP3 downloads, so it's not particularly useful to attempt to distinguish them by CD vs. MP3.
 Just to clear it up January 2, 2009
SixStrings
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Amazon seems to be selling three different albums with the same title from their MP3 service. However, confusingly they all share the same reviews.
1. The one with the blue cover is the original album
2. A second one is a release of the same album with two bonus tracks.
3. The third appears to be a live bootleg with a totally different tracklist.
At least that's what I think is going on.
BUYER BEWARE !!! November 20, 2008
Steve A. Kaufman (nyc)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
BEWARE; this offering is deceptive. I'm sure Amazon isn't attempting to mislead people, but the fact is all these glowing reviews you are reading ARE NOT FOR THIS ALBUM. They are for the original Atlantic Records album, called "My Favorite Things" which, except for the title cut. has completely different songs on it. The original album is a timeless classic which completely deserves all the praise heaped on it, but the album they are offering here looks like a cheaper bootleg - there are many bootleg Coltrane albums on the market with these low-tech looking graphics and poor sound quality. I'm not saying this one is bad...I have never heard it - but the point is, most of these reviewers have never heard it either. You are totally buying this at your own risk.
Will I go to hell for saying it's overrated? August 28, 2008
Priscilla A. Arnold (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I expected to love this album. I love Coltrane. But it's just not gelling. For whatever reason, the album comes across as a jam-session, and not a serious musical production. The balance is uneven and the sound is muted and cloudy. The majority of the album carries no understandable theme or idea. I know it's jazz, and it's supposed to be loose, but this is just frustrating!
Honestly, my favorite part of the album was Tyner's piano playing. He's a genius! I'll be looking into more of him.
Tilting toward easy listening June 26, 2008
Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Virtuosity that tilts toward easy listening
John's Coltrane's genius and inventiveness are on display on this album of public favorites, though little of his edginess. The format is easy-listening four-piece jazz -- sax, drums, keyboard and bass -- and is unlikely to offend or challenge even those unfamiliar with the genre. At least as amazing as Coltrane's wild improvisational flights are pianist McCoy Tyner's rapid fire runs up and down the keys.
Not groundbreaking, but there's ear-catching virtuosity here if you're really listeing. Aand not a bad choice for background music at the office or a party.
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