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| | My Favorite Things | | | Music Artist : | | John Coltrane | | Music Style : | | Traditional Vocal Pop | | Record Label : | | Atlantic / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. My Favorite Things
2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
3. Summertime
4. But Not for Me
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great jazz album
Submitted on: 2009-03-04 |
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| Coltrane is awesome as always. This melodic jazz album goes down smooth. Great for jazz fans but may not be the most accessible to the uninitiated. "My Favorite Things" is pretty accessible to everyone though since it is such a famous song. |
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 Beautiful and Inventive Jazz
Submitted on: 2009-02-17 |
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This is really a beautiful album from Coltrane, recorded in 1960. It offers a collection of 4 famous standards from 3 American composers. These are Richard Rodgers' "My Favorite Things" from the 1959 musical "The Sound of Music", Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" from the 1944 musical review "Seven Lively Arts", George Gershwin's "Summertime" from the 1935 opera "Porgy and Bess", and Gershwin's "But Not for Me" from the 1930 musical "Girl Crazy".
Other reviewers have already analyzed the performances of the 4 tunes. Note that you also get 2 bonus tracks which include parts 1 and 2 of the single version of "My Favorite Things" which leave out much of Coltrane's extended solo from the full 14 minute version. So, I'll just note that this is a very good album for people nervous about Coltrane's reputation to start out with. It is more accessible than "A Love Supreme" or other late Coltrane albums, primarily because you'll probably recognize the tunes, but also because Coltrane plays in a very lyrical fashion. But the playing of the entire ensemble is also quite inventive. Another good album for Coltrane neophytes to start with is "Blue Train" from 1957. |
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Original vs. Bootleg Clarification
Submitted on: 2009-01-03 |
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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. |
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 BUYER BEWARE !!!
Submitted on: 2008-11-20 |
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| 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. |
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Will I go to hell for saying it's overrated?
Submitted on: 2008-08-28 |
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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. |
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