My Favorite Things (Live (1963 Newport Jazz Festival)

My Favorite Things (Live (1963 Newport Jazz Festival)
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[@jackrdoherty]

This is not only the greatest soprano solo , but probably the greatest sax solo I've ever heard ! Nobody comes close to Coltrane on tenor or soprano . He sounds like he has found total freedom to take it wherever he wants . Technical ability aside , he always plays from the soul and explores the spiritual realm .

[@gibberconfirm166]

This is the one that changed my life, like 8 years I did nothing but listen to John Coltrane. It's the second soprano solo at 9:17 I kept trying to play for people before realizing they just didn't generally get it at the level I was receiving, even if they were like, Pink Floyd instrumental fans. The KZbin viewcounts to this day sadly indicate most just don't get it.

[@KimCaspar]

@@gibberconfirm166 I could not agree more. Even at the darkest moment of my life, I have always found solace and hope in the mesmerizing intensity and creativity but also the human dignity of this performance. There is something sacred and timeless in their playing, and I'm always keeping this treasure in my heart.

[@onastur]

this recording almost makes me cry with the way coltrane is able to so elegantly express emotion. I think he will forever be in my mind the greatest saxophonist of all time

[@jongraham7362]

Roy Haynes on drums...He's still bringing it in 2022 at 97 years young!

[@bivvystridents3752]

I LOVE Roy Hanes. Does he still gig? If so, where?

[@matubaM]

They have this version in Coltrane's collection on the Emirates planes, and everytime I'm on a 10+ hour flight with them I play this on repeat for at least 3 hours of my trip!

[@reborn6310]

Same

[@haysfordays]

Oh man.....perfect place and time.

[@theymkmewhtiam]

Hands down the best version of this song. Everything is perfect about it.

[@janetmccoy2192]

I wonder is there a video of this?

[@pedrojoaquim756]

Respectfully disagree. But, who am I to judge Coltrane's music (especially "My Favorite Things")

[@TSchmidt28]

@@pedrojoaquim756 man there are just so many incredible recordings of this tune (Copenhagen ‘63, Belgium ‘65, Japan ‘66, etc.) that seem definitive on their own. You can talk about all the ways one might be the best but at a certain point you end up just talking about how certain parts of the recording resonate with you personally and it becomes a totally subjective game. I tend to view every version as equally valid and “perfect” as simply one point in its evolution

[@santiagochad3309]

i realize Im quite off topic but does anyone know a good website to watch newly released series online?

[@deonejones748]

@@santiagochad3309 netflix

[@bobmcrae5751]

I had never heard of John Coltrane until my high school grad night when someone put on this recording of My Favourite things. It changed my life.

[@celticcross6824]

Coltrane tears it up like nobody else. It's a whole new level

[@williamgreenfield9991]

I'm not counting, but it's possible that I've listened to this a hundred times, and I appreciate it more each time. Miracle #1 is that he isn't even playing his "usual" instrument, but playing soprano sax. The only other supreme master of the soprano that I know of is Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) who (along with Louis Armstrong) began the long and glorious tradition of the jazz soloist. Bechet was brilliant, but Coltrane takes this instrument to places it's never gone, before or since. Miracle #2 In parts of this he sounds like he is playing two instruments at once, moving (seemingly) effortlessly between octaves. These passages remind me of Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing two and even three horns at once and making it sound great, like a tight 2 or 3-man horn section. Coltrane is creating this effect with one instrument. Miracle #3 The sheer amount of breath and breath control that this requires is staggering to behold. This also reminds me of Rahsaan and his utter mastery of circular breathing, as well as playing with immense power. Both played with a profound depth of soul. Miracle #4 The incredible quality of the sound recording, being able to hear everything Roy Haynes and Jimmy Garrison are doing, and getting most of the subtleties of McCoy Tyner's playing. I can't hear any distortion when John is playing so intensely that you'd think the mic might fail. We owe a debt of gratitude to the person who captured this, hopefully for all time, since this is one of the greatest artistic musical performances of all time. Miracle#5 The transcendent beauty and creativity of the playing all through the piece, but especially as things wrap up from 16:20ish to the end. Miracle #6 This piece is beyond music and is in the realm of healing. Miracle #7 That this was 1963 and a version of this was actually a "hit" which gave John a measure of success, which allowed him to explore ever higher planes of free expression in the following years. PS I wonder how many in the audience had any idea how great this performance was and is, and I wonder how many other great performances John gave that were not recorded.

[@georgebradley7025]

Simply the Greatest transformation of a classic by the greatest Jazz musician Ever , Astounding He is Still Alive through his music until the world cease to exist .

[@user-jh3ef5mb2g]

同じ気持ちです。マイ　ェイバリットシィングス最高ですよね

[@user-bx4uw8gw2k]

YES YES, It's miracle, his music, It's a gift from a universe. YUKato

[@henrydegeneste3394]

I had the pleasure of attending this festival and without a doubt this performance was a classic for all time. When we land on another planet we need to take this recording with us as a gesture of good will . Any being will understand.

[@erroldillon1548]

This is the Main Sound! The sound that puts the Sun in its place! It’s the sound of the Universe exploding with joy and clarity!

[@Frank-ec2ll]

Recorded over 50 years ago but just as relevant today !!!

[@luigipucci3008]

To me, that seems to be his most iconic version ever.

[@luigipucci3008]

@soukous25 What a master he was. Still kicking it after almost 60 years.

[@siphokhoza9151]

@@luigipucci3008 ABSOLUTELY!!!

[@toddsaedify]

will never be eclipsed, the best of the timeless and pure artistry, the being reborn in truth and love

[@francescogallo6291]

definitive version

[@guybraham1483]

Sometimes when I need to cry and I can't I put this on... Thanks John

[@ownitnow7451]

Every time I listen to this, I have a new perception of what music can be.

[@bivvystridents3752]

After 30 years, still one of my all-time favorite Coltrane performances.

[@jacquelynwatson6171]

G-R-E-A-T indeed! Real, real good! I love it! Reminds me of my wonderful DAD! Jacquelyn from Philadelphia (Philly baby!)❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊 EXCELLENT with a capital E!!!!!!!

[@user-hh1bb5yj3y]

THIS HELPED ME DEVELOPE MY TRUE INTEREST IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BACK THEN. HAD UNCLES EXPOSED ME.THANKS TO BOTH...

[@edwinhurwitz6792]

I'm using this for study. Education is fair use! Every musician should know this 17 minutes of music.

[@roberthanson579]

Every human should hear it. ;)

[@petecornell2605]

as a kid/young sax player, I fantasized us broadcasting this into the universe 🙌🏽

[@gyawareturns2]

やっぱトレーンのMy favorite thingsは、このNEWPORT版が1番イイ！　Roy Haynes , OMG !

[@youkin10g]

同感です。こんなスピード感のあるこの曲はこれだけ。ロイ・ヘインズさまさまですね。私もMy favoriteのパフォーマンスはこのNewportです。ミキサーのバランスが残念；

[@coltrane4949]

Absolutely the best Coltrane version of My Favorite Things. Just amazing!

[@anthonybisson1999]

Yup.

[@giuseppedigioia69]

Coltrane is always wonderful and plays intensely. What makes peculiar this version in my opinion is Roy Haynes drumming, so different from Elvin Jones' and the high quality of the recording that makes you hear every single note played by Jimmy Garrison. Beautiful!

[@martinmell1065]

Great muzhik vz

[@petecornell2605]

Roy Haynes!🥁🙌🏽

[@StanfordFan-jn1dp]

Germany in the 60's is where I first heard him and I'm still listening to him. This and "Giant Steps" are the reason I joined the Church of John Coltrane in SF.

[@jerrygoldfarb7739]

Originally released on an album titled Selflessness-agree that this is the greatest sax solo I have ever heard!

[@andrewtannenbaum1]

Roy Haynes snare is a work in itself. Let alone everything else.

[@tonytony1035]

Stunning. I used to think this recording was from 1968 or 1969. 1963 was another geological age. WAY ahead of its time. Stunning courage and fearlessness. BRILLIANCE.

[@luzsanchez5238]

He died in 67

[@blec8876]

Écouter une première fois à 25 ans’ aujourd’hui j’ai 51 ans, il est toujours dans mes oreilles.

[@RyanHDR]

Best intro to any song ever. Just breathtaking.

[@petecornell2605]

the opening sax notes are on tenor; beautiful

[@DPOWER222]

Transcendent!!💜🌄🌠🙏🏾 Absolutely one of the greatest live musical performances ever done!!! This piece can heal you if your ready and desire it of the modern day blues that afflict so many souls today!!!! Try it and feel better💜🌞

[@user-uj3zt1jz7t]

It is a wonderful performance and it is a performance of selflessness that can not be compared with other Mr Coltrane is forever

[@latebloomer2937]

They cut it short !!! Wtf !!! "JOHN COLTRANE, MC COY TYNER, JIMMY GARRISON, ROY HAYNES." THE BEST PIECE OF MUSIC EVER !!!!

[@howlinhonky]

when this version of mft was 1st released on the selflessness lp that introduction sounded so dramatic that they tacked it onto the end of mft- the intro was actually after the end of "impressions" from the same set which wasn't released until it came out on cd

[@mukundamoon]

My "Favorite Jazz Song" of all Time! Thanks Ancestor TRANE!🌈🎼🎉🎶😇

[@siphokhoza9151]

LOVE THIS!!!

[@tomgoff6867]

The real Sound of Music!

[@jeremystein4534]

The cadenza at the end is particularly wonderful.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Yes. The whole piece is utterly amazing, but the ending is simply sublime and transcendent beauty.

[@robertwbecker]

Once again we have this really total vibration from the whole Quartet! Praise the Lord and this entire quartet!

[@hollandsangster4926]

Sounds like he's having sooo much fun!!!

[@moses_dimski]

Mr. Roy Haynes!

[@granitebayusa]

“My Favorite Things” John Coltrane “Newport ‘63 Album”. John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner piano, Roy Haynes on Drums , Jimmy Garrison on Bass. Is the undisputed standard for “My Favorite Things”…..Just compare any, any other version. Roy Hanes, Drummer the Star, incredible, from the first beat to the last beat. Listen to the Talking “Drums”. How gracious is John Coltrane to McCoy Tyner to continue the flow with an incredible solo. Jimmy Garrison keeps the bass the grounded. John Coltrane, RIP…. This is “My Favorite Things”, This is “My Love Supreme”.

[@josecamilo1640]

There is a subtle releasing of energy and at the same time some kind of in taking peacefulness. Some dancing sandals stomping the material essence of the world while flying with some mysticism that I imagine new and rarely celebrated for ourselves in this litoral of the universe. Most probably Coltrane needed it for his own good and pleasures; it delights me likewise, it is simply beautiful and like it...thanks!!

[@basilenegraham3714]

I NEVER get tired of hearing this tune from COLTRANE! My old boss said that he saw Trane in Philly & he played this joint for 3 hours & no one in the club was annoyed.

[@tonytony1035]

I would give my left hand to have video of this. Everyone search their collections.

[@jonathanshamam9123]

I am SURE it’s out there somewhere.

[@user-iq9tf4qf6c]

コルトレーンはこの曲を生涯愛しましたね〜ジャズファンも彼の演奏を愛しました🎶🤔😃

[@ccd340rt]

what an awesome version so much talent . unreal ...

[@m90lsblkp..dfvsljns..]

The best live record ever made.

[@anthonybisson1999]

So light and restrained! I think about Joe Morello also whose drums was singing that deilcate .

[@BastiatHayek]

JOHN COLTRANE (s sax), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b) and Roy Haynes (d).

[@bobwonderhem9796]

This is one of my favorite things

[@DW-zy4zr]

Just stunning! Best live version by far, not the longest but best!

[@dustincornejo5263]

This man was not of this world. The best 🙏🏻

[@clintonhiggs5613]

Oo00

[@fron645]

Yup, still goosebumps down the neck

[@Bips69]

Love the way Roy tunes the snare with that loose trap sound! ❤️

[@alexpushbird4891]

I knew the studio take well and enjoyed it, but you can't understand what the song meant to Coltrane until you hear how he played it during different phases of his career. In 1961, he was still exploring the melodic potential of the tune, most interestingly in tandem with Eric Dolphy on live recordings from that year. The melodicism peaked in 1963, with the stunning versions on Newport '63 and Afro Blue Impressions (the latter is my favorite)

[@freddiebell2813]

Bruh knows his Trane....

[@Kronington]

and at the end of his career he plays the infamous olatunji version

[@sterlingweston]

What about his '66 quintet renditions, q.v. Japan 1966

[@EdwardYemilRosario]

This performance changed my life at 16.

[@marksolomon9472]

To infinity and beyond

[@marywarren4206]

Just for the record, I'm not Mary, I'm her husband using her Google account. I used to think Coltrane's music sounded like a catfight, I couldn't abide it for the longest time. But tonight, after a strong dose of my plant-based medicine, I think I get it. He produces sounds from a soprano sax that shouldn't be humanly possible. He must have been physically and mentally drained after that. This is my new favorite thing!

[@sennendourado9677]

John Coltrane u are awesome as ever, taking ur sexyfone to way above the next level!! Thank you for leaving us this great legacy of music God bless you where ever you are, Sennen Antonio Dourado Wisconsin Milwaukee's Mumbai India.

[@ForcedMemeIsAMeme]

"sexyfone"????

[@7goddahomie243]

Sexyphone!? 🤔

[@sennendourado9677]

Yeah coz gives his listener's a new kinda high!!!!!

[@mukundamoon]

🌈🎷My Favorite Sax song of John Coltranes!

[@latebloomer2937]

This was his best version !! He was the leader !! No. 1 alltime !!!

[@siphokhoza9151]

COULDN'T AGREE MORE!!!

[@matthewcoombs3282]

McCoy Tyner is no slouch on this recording either. Just wonderful piano playing.

[@raynugen3826]

so much blues-ier and metronomic - ...sure it's him?

[@davidmuse1351]

Hear, hear!

[@jamesjackson8058]

I love those flat note accents..how they feel so 👍

[@hectormaradona8410]

Unmatched enjoyment.

[@lawrencepolk3137]

This is one of the greatest recordings in history if you ask me. I've never heard brush work this dynamic! (Tony Williams - drums)

[@Icouldwriteabook]

I cant believe I missed your comment. This is not Tony, this is Roy Haynes.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

I agree, when I first heard this recording I quite literarily felt breathless and in a trance....the band are like magicians creating alcemeeeey.....just a wonderful expression of ensemble jazz playing.

[@RobertHanson-km3be]

Just the greatest.

[@greyhorse1211]

Captures sadness and joy in one hypnotic tour de force.

[@davederoux3361]

Sounds like elephants mating..in a good way..fantastic!

[@joebeeber8693]

WOW WOW AN MORE WOW !!!!

[@billlink4271]

When to dog bites, and the bee stings. When Ur feeling bad; a revue of Favorite Things is prescribed.

[@hokanu93]

Hard to chose a version but this one got points

[@salimtenang8868]

Champion!

[@stiannobelisto573]

What a beginning! This is Genesis 🎹

[@suattusuattu3841]

Sublime

[@Huntington2012ify]

There's nothing like the NJF in the world. No other Jazz Festival in world even comes close to it. It is now in good hands with Christian McBride as its musical director after the passing away of its founder George Wein last year.

[@nirinaramangasalama3265]

Love it

[@pasajeraentrance]

Guau increíble esta versión ♥️

[@fabianbernard6819]

I'm glad when my national radio is on strike, they're able to broadcast that version

[@jeromehamilton6009]

This is the greatest soprano solo of all time bar none , I am a musician so I think I know

[@ceef8688]

Colch makes me feel the very surroundings of things

[@benkleschinsky]

Went to take a 30 second break, came back 20 minutes later.

[@younghem]

Coltrane at Newport in 1963 may have been the Jazz event of the century.

[@abdullahkarim2148]

All great

[@matthewvoss4375]

Blessed

[@petecornell2605]

I grew up hearing this…

[@MrAllright2]

Incredible jazz, beyond words...

[@terryfonteno431]

Get em Roy

[@Mr.Monta77]

This is an amazing artistic statement.

[@abdullahkarim2148]

Just Loved went to his Church.Hung out with his Bass Player San Francisco 1978

[@Abdullah-h1v1p]

Ravi is great

[@kiyo2951]

It sounds even new.

[@toddsaedify]

Live at the VIllage Vanguard, and Return to the VIllage Vanguard are grabbers, maybe his best,

[@fnbworld5177]

A Version Supreme!!

[@nirinaramangasalama3265]

Merveilleux.

[@sidlopez4599]

“THERE IT IS”🤙🏼

[@joebeeber8693]

FOR THE THUMBS DOWN YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR THUMB BACK IN YOUR MOUTH AN GO BACK TO SLEEP !!!

[@GjaP_242]

CREATIVITY IN BEETHOVEN AND COLTRANE Brad Mehldau, May 2010 (Note: Portions of this essay first appeared in an article written for the French magazine, Jazzman) installment 1 - taking stock and shoring up in opus 95 Source: Brad Mehldau Official Site

[@junjun9011]

コルトレーンさん、凄い!!

[@warrengaines7300]

Roy Haynes “wow”

[@EduardoRomaguera]

Fantástico sonido!

[@jayscribe7547]

Sounds like he’s channeling God

[@robertwbecker]

Uh, yeah i get that!

[@fron645]

They all are, my friend!

[@gibberconfirm166]

Correct.

[@tomscott1741]

Because he is

[@sterlingwrighte9413]

This God, is PTAH/ ATEN!!!!

[@patrikbifeldt7227]

holy holy

[@m5st5gr5s]

I do agree