John Coltrane - Naima/My Favorite Things

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Idolator posted this video in honor of Martin Luther King today - so I thought it would most fitting to repost it here.

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And the name of the song is actually Naima, off of Coltrane's 1959 Giant Steps, not "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."

This is just before his original quartet left because Coltrane was diverging from the "old" hard bop structures and going off into some fairly radical free associative phrasing...if you listen to the original on Giant Steps and then this you can hear how far out his solos are becoming. The last two years of his career before his death were spent exploring the edges of free jazz, of which these performances in 1965 were just a harbinger.

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My Favorite Things

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).

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 Coltrane's further investigation of the instrument's capabilities in a jazz idiom.