John Coltrane "My Favorite Things" 1961 (Reelin' In The Years Archives)

[@rocklight1184]

No fake smiles on their faces, no trying to impress the audience with crazy moves or anything. Just a group of outstanding professionals doing their thing. Masters of their crafts!

[@nevilleattkins586]

So unlike the crazy mecano modernism of the set.

[@njclondon2009]

Coltrane once said to Miles Davis in an agitated state, "Miles, I just can't figure out how to end a record...". Miles replied, " John, just take the horn out of your mouth"

[@luisrocha26]

now that's a great quote!

[@alperdurmus5234]

BRILLIANT

[@JudgeDredd_]

Love this

[@eugenemason1808]

Sounds at right!

[@aroe3896]

total LOL

[@Euthymia]

My god, these guys weren't playing music, they were channeling music....they went beyond it to a place where they WERE music. I'm sobbing listening to this, there's just so much joy in it

[@gellison93]

Touches the soul doesn't it. Just Beautiful

[@Gurci28]

@@gellison93 Mathematically wonderful! 1:11

[@Gurci28]

Choose your favorite and interesting things to do while listening to Coltrane's jazz music, please. 1:23

[@Gurci28]

Concentration, focus and relaxation at the same time, unbelievable! 3:21

[@ray1love1]

I am to it just make me think

[@bigchungus2063]

The world was robbed of John Coltrane way to early May This Saint Rest In Peace

[@nateo6518]

Can't we all just hear this and get along?

[@canalrandom7912]

A soprano sax and flute in unison playing the main theme is something I didn't know I needed

[@marlondeetjen2471]

Coltrane will forever be passed down from my kids to grandkids. I refuse to let his work die down & it never will ! Just beautiful

[@johnmccue4925]

Elvin Jones on drums steers this song along beautifully.

[@globalpeasant]

Check out Elvin on Afro Blue ! Awesome! If you haven’t seen it already .

[@JudgeDredd_]

He’s back there groovin’ man I can feel it!!!

[@carlbradley6171]

The John Coltrane Quartet - 6 years of beautiful music. The driving force and powerhouse was Elvin Jones with his very unique style.

[@PavJedrusiak]

Genius.

[@gellison93]

This will forever remind me of my granny and her siblings educating me on the importance of music. Our heritage. Our struggle. Our love

[@707Errol]

Listening to Coltrane is like a warm blanket in the coldest night.

[@davidhammons908]

Lean Alcantara oo.

[@davidmehnert6206]

in the year you were born

[@sodayumsouthern]

Couldn't have explained it better myself.

[@MGM1105]

Yes, indeed!!

[@angelareele858]

A flickering,glistening golden diamond of expression.... That defies death and time........

[@しかましげあき]

コルトレーンとドルフィーの孤高の天才二人！最高ですね！

[@RevBobAldo]

Saw him play this at Crawford's Grill # 2 in Pittsburgh the year this song came out. You could sit right in front of the bandstand and hear all the jazz greats who came to town for the price of a one dollar beer, or maybe a two dollar chicken dinner. Those were great days!

[@RodericSpode]

That is awesome. I need to finish work on my time machine

[@FredWoodard]

That must’ve been a mind blowing experience!

[@bobosocialo4313]

Lucky man

[@jamespjohnson]

Sheets of sound! Trane lives! The Universal Language! This epitomizes the best that America offers the world. Thanks for sharing!!

[@beahafkenscheid8421]

Some of the best jazz musicains together

[@MsTuty]

Coltrane is a pride for human race!

[@Gurci28]

John William Coltrane is one of the most influential jazz musicians to ever play, and today remains even more relevant than during his life. A saxophonist, he was initially drawn to the popular jazz formats of bebop and hard bop, before eventually becoming one of the guiding forces behind free jazz. 1:00 [The National WWII Museum]

[@Gurci28]

Coltrane was an extremely humble, non-violent man.

[@Gurci28]

Besides being a professional at the saxophone, Coltrane studied alto sax, clarinet, and tenor sax.

[@Gurci28]

Widely regarded as Coltrane's masterpiece and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time, A Love Supreme was recorded in 1964 and takes the form of a four-part suite: 'Acknowledgement', 'Resolution', 'Pursuance' and 'Psalm'. 10:00 [Jazzfuel]

[@vicb4901]

Elvin Jones performs like a waterfall. Eric Dolphy is the guest star while St. Coltrane, the master of musical spirituality makes this nice Broadway musical waltz extraordinary forever...

[@宮崎和久-e7z]

This is a rare video because Eric Dolphy is playing the flute. I've been coming here for over a decade since I started enjoying KZbin.

[@Frank-ec2ll]

I can listen to Coltrane's Quartet's renditions of MY Favorite Things again and again and again for hours and hours. McCoy Tyner with his block chording was a masterful fit for Coltrane. Eric Dolphy's flute solos were special when he played with Coltrane. Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and each member of this group were all masters in their own right .

[@KC______]

True, but in this video and in the original studio recording its Steve Davis on bass not Jimmy Garrison. ✌🏽🗽✊🏾🇺🇸

[@CUSHLOMOCKREE]

I WAS 18 on July 17, 1967. I exited the subway on W. 4 St. I passed a newspaper stand and saw that he had died. It hit me in the stomach, and I cried. I had lost my father...again.

[@mananaadamia1657]

Yes

[@mananaadamia1657]

I know

[@ramanpreetsingh2206]

Damn.... That's some rough past u got at the moment😶

[@ayezay2677]

God Bless You All In Jesus Name Amen Jesus Is The King And The Lord Of All The Alpha And The Omega

[@BopWalk]

Mccoy Tyner and Elvin Jones absoutely tearing it up, bravo!!!

[@nyterpfan]

Their performances are truly transcendent here--artistic brilliance!!

[@heatseeker9738]

McCoy Tyner on the piano is the real meat of this song, I think. Those chords are beautiful.

[@hilbertsinn6886]

On the studio recording yes, but here I'd say it's Dolphy's flute solo, which is beyond extraordinary. Both are are perhaps the very best I have ever heard on that instrument.

[@eric4637]

RIP

[@vitorfernandes651]

You must be joking. The sax part is easy more interesting to the ear. Piano is a bit boring like background music.

[@stuartmcgillivray9879]

100% agree. Also even as a drummer I think Elvington Jones is overplaying! There i said it, pure sacrilege

[@aquariusrizing]

He's the perfect foil for the sax. Just right.

[@ShawnC.T.]

This 60's Jazz masterpiece is simply, class personified, R.I.P. John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, and Eric Dolphy...

[@jennifergibbons08]

And now the mighty McCoy. RIP.

[@canalrandom7912]

Some respect for Jimmy Garrison as well

[@canalrandom7912]

It's actually Reggie Workman on this recording but well, respect for both, respect to every jazz musician that has ever lived on this earth

[@chuckm4540]

The always essential Eric Dolphy! This is an all-pro lineup for sure!!

[@ranielyfire]

So much good music happening in the 60s wow

[@emilianoturazzi]

along with 20s the best jazz season in my opinion: an enormous amount of variety and creativity, even minor figures had strong personalities and even older musicians belonging to other eras were still alive and creative (Ellington, Arnstrong, Hawkins... just to name three)

[@k4kafka]

Yes…You should’ve been there to see these guys in a small,smoke-filled nightclub

[@dennispearson871]

The variation on the original theme , and Flow of these phenomenal jazz artists was absolutely INCREDIBLE !!!.....

[@dantef4399]

I was introduced to John Coltrane when I was a freshmen in college 2007..jazz history lol.. this guy and his fellow musicians were amazing .. the discipline, the passion for their craft always impressed me..next to my wife this is the best thing I got from school ! Peace

[@pauliewalnuts2800]

Rest in peace to this legendary quintet, I wish there was more music like this today

[@runthomas]

must say ...that drumming was absolutley astounding from alvin all the way through ..it was kind of rythmical and yet not so ..a lot of character and nice distinct leadership.....wonderful...the flute was also amazing ..especially the high notes...beautiful

[@pauldecristoforo]

Coltranes embellishments are beyond what others do even today. He was literally ahead of his time.

[@unknown-ou3uf]

Soothing, velvet, warmth, familiar...

[@ryanphelan6861]

Dolphy was an equal what he did on bass clarinet is still innovative do sad both died young loved them together with trained rhthm section.....just do incredible. To communicate that easily through an instrument

[@johnsoncharles630]

Fascinating and thank you very much. (Azim)

[@pauldonald827]

I love this so much. The great quartet plus Dolphy at their peak. I grew up with this, and hope to be buried to it.

[@catwilloughby211]

Played at both of my parents memorial celebrations. Will play in the rotation at mine.

[@alroulexe4996]

Pure magic, pure expression, pure love of music, pure inspiration...

[@からすカラス-v4f]

コルトレーンが最も好んで一番演奏回数が多かった曲ですねぇ〜ドルフィーの参加が良いですねぇ🎶🤗

[@glennhecker4422]

There's something really special about the brief period in which Eric Dolphy was in the band (1961?) He really added to the sound and fit in BEAUTIFULLY.

[@danarucker8007]

Such a beautiful calming piece 🎷 🪈

[@MarceloGMonteiro21]

This is a gem!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Dabbers1959]

My favourite version of Coltrane's My Favourite Things. They all play with such percussive attack here.

[@sunflowerguy5314]

Check out the version on a bootleg called "John Coltrane Visit to Scandinavia ", it is by far the most beautiful Coltrane I've ever heard

[@markrenton3357]

100 % agree

[@MazingMania]

The way Dolphy and Coltrane mesh at 6:43 - stunning!

[@uhumanu6600]

40 years before my time, St. John walked the earth...

[@carbonsiren]

Coltrane's playing from 6:47 onward completely transforms what Eric Dolphy had been doing to the composition and changes its course until its end. It is so progressively tense, tethering on melancholic until it transforms into just that for a single minute, then ends. I'm far from a jazz scholar, but this seriously amazed me. What an incredible finish.

[@brittlyle3523]

I know the single minute you speak off. Great analysis.......

[@bvanwart]

same thing as Giant Steps

[@nizzaz]

Pheeeew this version is just sooo beautiful

[@vollsticks]

Totally agree, this and the version from the American Splendor soundtrack are two of my favourite things. Hey I did a pun. At his first UK concert, 'Trane played a 45 minute long version of this.

[@ogagaerebor]

I've had this sound in my head for like the past 3 years without remembering where I heard it from. 😂😂😂 so glad to come across it again.

[@robertosozio3425]

Great jazz Coltrane one Big,

[@nestordrums521]

Elvin Jones is just on cruise control on this performance - high and tight, lovin it

[@RnBLover1997]

Discovered Coltrane last year. I'm not kidding when I'm saying that it was one of the best things that could have happened to my life. I'm now a massive fan and I'm thinking about learning to play saxophone one day.

[@zrushin_]

So did you ever end up learning it?

[@narendrapanjwani1243]

John Coltrane on sax, McCoy on the piano, and music as improvisation, by people who poured their soul into it - these are some of the basic pleasures of life.

[@dnick49]

WoW ! The master's at work.Fantastic !!!!

[@remotedman]

The first time I heard John Coltrane do this cover of the American classic, I was attending the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. I had a friend that was into jazz and kept playing this record over and over. I finally got. There are very few instances where people prefer the cover over the original. This record became one of his signature recordings.

[@BMWDamun]

Nate Harris at Pitt introduced me to Coltrane's rendition a few years earlier.

[@jeanclaudeduce33]

The day I discovered the album...I think it changed my vision and paying. I am more of a Hendrix kind of player. So much soul in the playing here though.

[@robzbobz]

I discovered this while attending Pitt also! Had a great drum teacher there who also introduced me to Elvin Jones' playing.

[@niyiawe3183]

Crying cos I just discovered a treasure

[@Mx5322]

For some reason Eric Dolphy really gets me; its sounds off key or wrong at times but there's an emotion in it that's hypnotizing.

[@gibberconfirm166]

He would listen to the birds and their existential assertions : (

[@nizzaz]

I know right? When he starts the first note is well "off key" and he gets a surprised stare from McCoy actually ;) But it sounds awesome. In music as in life, you play the note wrong or right, it doesn't matter: time passes and things you hear become things you've heard :)

[@bobdownes162]

@@nizzaz It matters to me as a Flutist. Only a handful of notes that are executed are in tune. Some tnotes played in the upper range are almost half a tone sharper in pitch than intended. Blasting away on the instrument is partly the cause. But it is possible to play very loud on the instrumenrt without being out of tune. His bassclarinet, tuning wise was always Spot On. Coltrane plays the soprano perfectly in tune. A difficult thing to accomplish on this instrument.

[@goodbababadbaba6370]

Way out of tune flute

[@user-mc7ov2ru2r]

"There are no wrong notes" Theophilus monk.

[@hobumbra1986]

Coltrane est génial, tous les musiciens le sont. Eric Dolphy a le génie d'élever la flûte à des sommets jamais atteints auparavant !

[@juanrobertonavarro650]

Just amazing. Brilliant. Coltrane... What a genius!

[@tonyfreeman1258]

I really enjoyed Coltrane's interpretation of "My Favorite Things'. I thought is was bold, brazen and ahead of its time!

[@WoundedEgo]

I wonder why he never smiles but his music makes me smile.

[@AlessandroForghieri]

According to his biography, the reason he seldom smiled was rather prosaic - he had bad teeth (he was keen on sweet food) and was wary to show them. Which does not prevent me to smile when I listen to his timeless music.

[@rodimusgamer7620]

I think is was cuz your embochure would get messed up and you couldn't make a proper sound

[@emilianoturazzi]

@@AlessandroForghieri I think he had bad teeth because he had been addicted with heroin...

[@YungKaioken]

The definition of jazz music right here 💜

[@sarahvanbrakle3573]

I WAS GONNA SAY WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT THIS WORK OF ART BUT THESE JAZZ KATS SAID IT ALL LOVE LOVE

[@Gurci28]

When famed jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader John Coltrane wanted to illustrate his understanding of music, he turned to mathematics. 6:52

[@Gurci28]

There are math enthusiasts who embrace classical music, especially the works of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. 1:03

[@Gurci28]

Music is made up of a series of beats and rhythms, and these can be represented mathematically through the use of fractions and ratios. 9:06

[@Gurci28]

Perhaps every musical composer is, in one way or another, also a mathematician. Coltrane’s circle, a symmetrical code or a mandala adorned with numbers and letters, expresses precisely what is, at once, both paradoxical and obvious. [Faena Aleph] 9:36

[@Gurci28]

In an interview with Down Beat magazine, the jazz legend Thelonious Monk once said that “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” [University of Waterloo] 8:08

[@sherriekoberevans3935]

As I listen 2020 Sept 19 sends a thrill and I fill up with tears for a lost love thanks forever we can go back time and time again to enjoy

[@butterfly79ization]

So Much Talent, Truly - all of these guys... but Coltrane still Stands in a League of his own!. It's Undeniable!!!

[@pavanatanaya]

McCoy never lets us get comfortable.

[@geraldjohnson848]

Sept.23: Happy birthday Mr John Coltrane (1926-1967) Thank you and God bless. RIP, 'Trane. Thanks for the upload. Blessings

[@nyterpfan]

This is IMHO Coltrane's greatest recording of "Favorite Things"--McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones are phenomenal---Tyner's solo is so beautiful and elegant, and Jones has that incredible rolling beat keeping the groove flowing--one of the all-time seminal works of jazz!!

[@MiqelDotCom]

check out MFT from Newport 1963, another one of the top versions! Energetic and good recording quality, too.

[@davematey]

Spot on... 😜

[@SR009s]

This is, by far, the best song i have ever heard from coltrane (the album version). Everything about it is perfect in every possible way. Easily a top 3, of all time, song.

[@franklyntaylor4432]

THIS SONG... Coltrane(My favorite musician of all time)and this incredible group of musicians... Top 10 song all time... All genres included.

[@c.f.m.2419]

all arts included

[@lucianlarghi5402]

I'll second that

[@JohnKasarinlan]

He's so godlike with the soprano sax.

[@canaldofelipe6808]

From many Coltrane’s master pieces, my favorite things is the one who makes me thankful for the life. Simply like that !!

[@MrBongoagogo]

that groove elvin plays its just flpws so well and then latter attack the ride and toms

[@jimmyshingle934]

Innovator..... Celebrate Coltrane... Masterpiece

[@michaelsteinthal3447]

My favorite Coltrane piece Takes me far and inner.

[@nyterpfan]

You get transported to a more beautiful place when you listen to this--without question!

[@siemonjf]

living treasure,'Trane, timeless,bouyant journey flows... thank you brother John

[@007saxa]

coltrane of soprano....eric dolphy on flute.....the sky's not the limit

[@igormma5150]

Elvim jones é absurdo como pode por tanta nota num compasso em 3/4 monstro da batera

[@beahafkenscheid8421]

Wonderful experience, great ensemble of top class musicians.

[@picardbs]

Simply wonderful

[@barbaravire6439]

Love me John Coltrane and expert in what he does their not to many Albums I don't have Coltrane love this guy! one of the greatest to ever grace the industry pure majic!! wow!

[@CeeWitz]

6:50-6:56: one of the greatest single notes in the history of jazz.

[@darylmichael7]

Pure, another dimension level genius. Wow. I’d loved to have heard Coltrane Quintet battle Miles, Wayne Shorter, Herbie, Carter and Tony Williams. A brother can dream, right? 😁

[@RichardASalisbury1]

Another great occasion of Trane and friends playing "My Favorite Things."

[@أمين-م4ظ5ض]

Elvin Jones, la polyrythmie pure !! Quel quartet fabuleux !

[@orionsbeltjazz6601]

Intemporel, magique ELVIN, du 3/4 à l'état pur.

[@diegofecchio]

What a groove... What a groove!!!

[@dagostinoification]

Un de mes thèmes favoris...Fabuleux groupe ! Solos incroyables ...GENIUS...

[@rinahall]

Ta gueule toi

[@jazzweather]

What a crackling performance by John Coltrane! Especially the second part after Eric Dolphy, Coltrane at his best, virtuoso, experimental, intense and melodic. And awesome work by Elvin Jones on drums, felt like he could go on for ever. Got to be one of the best performances ever!

[@AngelaMonsave]

Me encanta esta música, me eleva el espíritu. Gracias hombres bellos donde quiera que estén

[@sarahvanbrakle3573]

Man what a session but you gotta keep an eye on that DRUMMER. If he aint for real I dont know who is SUPERB

[@LaCheleWallace]

This is beautiful, fellas. When Mr. Eric Dolphy went off on that flute, I was too through. Great performance.

[@drapeblind]

an important historical record from our epoch. they'll be watching this 500 years from now.

[@jakesmith3915]

Coltrane's recordings are always so great and soulful along with the killin' rhythm sections he always seems to aquire, then you add Eric Dolphy on flute which just truly leaves me speechless in how great of a recording this is!

[@gianfrancob6352]

i'll always love this standard

[@donwesley72]

The Master Saxophonist John Coltrane. Great historical video.

[@ato947]

素敵な夢になりそうです。 Up ありがとうございました。

[@jrock2945]

+Ｎ Ｋato 確かに美しいです！

[@jasonyocom7649]

Mr Eric Dolphy RIP we love u

[@klaytonvonkluge4905]

real musicians... true feel, that drummer & pianist are outta this world

[@ShawnC.T.]

@Klayton Von Kluge Elvin Jones didn't play the drums here, he made love to 'em, he was so smooth as a drummer, and a very under appreciated one as well. He doesn't receive not nearly the credit he deserves as/for being one of the greatest Jazz drummers in music history...

[@sodayumsouthern]

@@ShawnC.T. Preach

[@nicolaischmidt368]

S. Chris T. Couldn’t agree more

[@brionbee]

When Eric Dolphy comes in he just attacks with beauty!!! Coltrane spoke of Dolphy as his favorite musician. That's saying a lot. Dolphy used to sit on his back porch in LA and talk with the birds with his flute in such a way that they would be answering him!!! Wow. This combination - The John Coltrane QUINTET - is in my opinion the greatest assembly of listening, pushing, yet subtle and innovative jazz musicians to date. Garrison on Bass, holding it down wherever the others would take it. Tyler on keys, supplying foundation, depth, and yet space and room for a wide range of melodies to be explored by the horn (And in this case the flute). Eleven Jones on percussion, always attacking, always carrying the momentum, and always ready for subtlety, listening for every new variation and accent played by his compatriots. And Coltrane. Coltrane... John played what was in him, and what was in Him!!! Melody that never stopped pouring forth, and that being such that it builds melody in the soul of the hearer. John had so much inside just clawing to escape. He was never satisfied, always experimenting with reeds, mouthpieces, and even his diet and clothing, in order to attain what he regarded as the perfect sovereign. He was tortured and gifted and addicted to beauty. He died of a heroine overdose seeking these. His playing is all we have left of this gentle powerhouse. And what a legacy...

[@polymath7]

+brion burkett Yeah, Dolphy's extraordinary - truly extraordinary - flute solo is a large part of why I consider this perhaps the single greatest musical performance ever captured on record. He's as essential here as Tyner is on the studio version.

[@carlosespinoza8699]

He died to liver cancer.... the creator thought he was getting to close to the divine on earth so he made him an angel .

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

When Dolphy comes in, he turns the whole performance upside down in just a few notes. Really something else.

[@IAmDumb2]

As Carlos Espinoza pointed out, he died of liver cancer, not a heroin overdose, in 1967. I want to add that he had quit heroin ten years earlier in 1957

[@carguy3460]

I was listening to this while working and immediately went to see what was happening at this point. That's Dolphy??? Astounding!

[@claudiovilches8025]

Estoy llorando, que tema Dios! Coltrane llego al mundo como regalo de los dioses

[@stevefaure415]

Amazing stuff. All the musicians are playing at such a high level, just technically amazing and actually listening to each other. Tyner's solo is exceptional.

[@Cespinozas]

This one is my favorite because of Eric Dolphy he was probably the only one who practiced as much as trane . There’s another live video of I want to talk about you that’s also mint .

[@pauldonald827]

In my view one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century was John Coltrane's quartet/quintet discovering, modifying and perfecting My Favouite Things. Genius.

[@TheAnnaFisher]

Divine elevation, more so inspiration! Thank you for posting! One love

[@Tyrell_Corp2019]

Back in the 90's, I bought this VHS. I remember it had two distinct performances. I believe the one with Dolphy was from a German television broadcast. The other was recorded perhaps the US? Finding performances like this, was really difficult. I hope those who are growing up with YT can appreciate the abundance of historic footage now available... at the click of a button. I must have popped this VHS into my machine at 1AM with a friend countless times. Analyzing it like it was gold. Well... it still is!

[@marcomuggironi2552]

Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful performance!!💓💓💓🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶

[@haloskater24]

Reminds me of my childhood