John Coltrane - My Favourite Things

"My Favorite Things”, the title tune, belongs to Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II's play The Sound of Music. The original stage production of The Sound of Music opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontane Theatre on November 16, 1959. Prior to Coltrane's reading it had already been recorded in a jazz setting by Benny Goodman. Goodman's tentet album of the score from the Broadway musical would be recorded merely four days after the play's stage debut on November 20. Although nearly all of the show's compositions became popular tunes, “My Favorite Things” would also become a jazz standard. Goodman's recording was the first knownjazz version of the tune, which would be interpreted later by many other jazzmen. However, its popularity in the jazz world can hardly be attributed to Benny Goodman, who wouldn't record the song again after making his album. It was John Coltrane who brought the song to the attention of the jazz world with the reading contained here, recorded on October 21, 1960.