John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This video explores how Coltrane took the cheerful Sound of Music tune and turned it ...

I Want To Talk About You; My Favorite Things; Impressions; Introduction By Father Norman O'Connor; One Down, One Up; My Favorite Things. John Coltrane: soprano and tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner: piano; ...

The first time he heard John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things," Robin Washington was about 6 years old, killing time outside the Chicago office of the Congress of Racial Equality. His mother ...

The late jazz great, who would have turned 100 this week, had the capacity to surprise us like no other. Here are his five ...

If your annual “Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?” debate is getting played out, (it is, and it is) here’s another one: is “My Favorite Things” a Christmas song? “My Favorite Things” was written by ...

Besides "Giant Steps," the songs that every Coltrane fan, er fanatic, has probably committed to memory note-for-note are the three presented here, "Naima," "My Favorite Things" and the four-part suite ...

One of my least favorite things is listening to John Coltrane play the second section of “My Favorite Things.” Normally, that part would be described as the bridge, but Richard Rodgers’s melody is ...

The chordal Coltrane was looking for more powerful, difficult, and in-your-face harmonic structures, but a raag improvisation ...

Tomorrow, Sept. 23, is the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth. In honor of the tenor and soprano saxophonist’s ...

Toward the end of John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations, the saxophonist stops playing. So do bassist Jimmy Garrison and ...