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 ...

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How John Coltrane’s ‘My Favorite Things’ Changed American Music Looking back at the moment when one of our greatest jazzmen raised the stakes for everyone who came after ...

The BSO takes ‘Giant Steps’ with John Coltrane tribute by Terence Blanchard and Carlos Simon The trumpeter and composer reflect on the legacy of an all-time great ...

Light sheets came directly out of that talk with John Coltrane. Narrator: You’ll hear Coltrane’s music throughout the exhibition—along with some of Whitten’s other favorite musicians.

For another, one of John Coltrane’s most popular offerings was a nearly 14-minute-long jazz take on “My Favorite Things” from his March 1961 album of the same name.

Reggie Workman On Working With John Coltrane An excerpt from Reggie’s essay in the liner notes to ‘Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy.’ ...

Set for wide release in 2017, CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and ...

Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, a new archival release, captures the 34-year-old artist as he comes to grips with his music’s remarkable possibilities.

1961 WAS AN annus mirabilis for John Coltrane. In March of that year his radical, modal reworking of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things was an unlikely radio hit for Atlantic Records. Then, in ...

From the 15:45-minute version of “My Favorite Things” to the 22:41-minute rendition of “Africa,” we experience Coltrane, Dolphy, Art Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Reggie Workman doing their ...