How Coltrane Broke 'My Favorite Things' (feat. Adam Neely)

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Sound Design by Graham Haerther

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All That I Have Written - Headlund
Digital Sadness - August Wilhelmsson

[robbe]

Coltrane performs 'my favorite things' one last time during the olantunji concert, which is a must listen if you like the original. The song is warped and distorted beyond recognition, and given its context (coltrane knew he was a dying man), it also feels like an eerie outcry. In the 34 minutes of sheer madness, I think you hear the original melody once. It's my favorite jazz track of all time, and I don't think that will change any time soon.

[Beastintheomlet]

8:26 Not gonna lie, when you said the line “Coltrane couldn’t reach his Jazz goals alone” my brain auto filled the end of the sentence with “he had Skill Share, Skill Share is a video learning platform...”

I’m now do the sponsor reads in my own head, please help.

[jackmiller]

Coltrane's version almost feels like a world unto itself.

[jackorion]

The Doors loved Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things. The instrumental vamp in Light My Fire uses the progression same with their song Universal Mind.

Actually Universal Mind takes the solo from Coltrane's Afro Blue but it's the same modal progression, Am Bm

[AkimboCorndogs]

I remember the first time I heard this song. It was the day Ornette Coleman died, and it was a cold and rainy day. The soprano sax and the dark chord progressions made it feel perfect for the time, but the piano solo and the rhythm section warmed my heart at the same time. I always think of that experience whenever I hear this track.

[Bill_Woo]

To me McCoy Tyner's magnificence provides the addictive hypnosis. I can lock into that groove for hours. Thanks Trane, for setting him up to do that.
McCoy died this year (2020). Upon which I cried and cried and cried.

[johnkalinowski]

Adam Neely AND Polyphonic?!

What is it my birthday?!

[RichardASalisbury]

In 1961, when I was 19, a good friend (who still is) turned me, a classical-music lover, on to jazz, with two then-recent masterpieces, "Kind of Blue" and "My Favorite Things." Miles and Trane are still my gods of jazz, and these two albums are still my favorites in jazz. The 1st track on the latter, "My Favorite Things, " takes off one minute in and flies until the last note 12 minutes later. I've several versions of Coltrane's take on the tune, and many are great, but this, the first one recorded, is still my favorite--still makes me high. What may seem stranger is that it always has and still does validate me in some basic way, makes me feel purposeful, powerful, and important, as if by listening to Coltrane and Tyner I partake in the striving of which this amazing music is the sonic embodiment.

[jonrite]

So Coltrane was edging us with the a section for 12 minutes

[TheKevster]

The track that took me from Jazz Funk into Jazz, when Coltrane switches keys near the end of the track it absolutely wrenches my heart and soul. Even after listening to this for about 40 years it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. McCoy Tuner was sublime on this piece

[ayrawynd]

I absolutely love this song. I was so obsessed with it, that I once listened to it on a plane for the entire flight. There is always something new in it. I now have it on vinyl.

[chromebull]

The title of the video sounds like someone broke in your house and broke your favorite things.

[jyryhalonen]

This recording got me into jazz and it's still my favourite

[yiklongtay]

Adam has officially improved my musical ear (albeit a little bit). I was listening to My favourite things and I thought it sounded strange that it sounded like the minor scale in the first two rounds yet strangely positive (major scale) near the end. Then I looked up the song's music theory and wound up here. Thanks, Adam.

[DucksUpDogsDownCatsSlide]

Alice Coltrane shan't be forgotten, love John too.

[m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

also for those who don't know, his wife Alice's version is

[helvarthered]

Always wondered why that minor to major shift seemed to work so well. The lack of a thirds makes sense. Thanks daddy Neely

[burmajones]

Clicked like already. Have to save watching it for later, after the wages workday is done, but this song just blows my mind every time I listen to it. There's a part deep into the song where it seems like McCoy Tyner is hitting one single note over and over, but he's messing with the timing of it, sometimes playing single notes, sometimes triplets, sometimes double notes, so that it sounds like he's playing chords. But to me it's just this one note over and over and over, and it sounds so compelling. So groovy and intense. It is my favorite musical passage of all time. Sublime.

[cooker]

Wish John Contrane broke a few more songs.

[freddylubin]

Nothing in the world is as beautiful and sad as Coltrane's "Every Time We Say Goodbye".