Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album)

My Favorite Things
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1961 (1961-03)[1][2]
RecordedOctober 21, 24, 26, 1960
GenreModal jazz
Length40:25
LabelAtlantic
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
John Coltrane chronology
Lush Life
(1961)
My Favorite Things
(1961)
Africa/Brass
(1961)

My Favorite Things is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in March 1961 on Atlantic Records.[1][2] It was the first album to feature Coltrane playing soprano saxophone. An edited version of the title track became a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 on radio.[3] The record became a major commercial success.

  1. ^ a b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 593. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Mar. Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. March 18, 1961. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  3. ^ Ratliff, Ben, Coltrane: The Story of A Sound. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-12606-3, p. 60.

Previous Page Next Page