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On 22 November 1961, at the Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman (on bass) and Elvin Jones were on stage. “My Favorite Things”, which opened the session, is from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical comedy The Sound of Music. Coltrane had made the piece one of the iconic hits of his career, and in March of that year had released an eponymous album.

One detects in this piece the extension of innovations found in Kind of Blue: long modal passages alternate between major and minor modes. Coltrane said of it, “This waltz is fantastic: when you play it slowly, it has a ‘gospel’ aspect, which is not at all unpleasant; when you play it fast, it has certain other undeniable qualities. It’s very interesting to discover a terrain that renews itself according to the impulse that you give it; that’s the reason why we don’t always play this tune in the same tempo.” Nothing is ever fixed with Coltrane, and this version is no doubt one of his finest...

It has often been said that everything Trane did, he did to excess — drugs and alcohol, then cigars, vegetarianism, and finally, religion. Overlooked, though, was his obsession with friendship, his passion for group musical performances where — owing to his high expectations of himself and others — the contribution of each individual musician was elevated. Even his spiritual conversion late in life was not self-centered. Miles Davis wrote in his autobiography that Coltrane turned into a diamond. He could have added that Trane was considered a beacon; he shaped music in general and jazz in particular, and he guided entire generations of immense jazzmen. — (via Label)

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— 2LP, Mono pressing on heavyweight vinyl
— First edition, Limited to 4000 copies
— Includes download card for the 16-bit version of the album
— Housed in Tip-on gatefold printed in Italy, with hot-foil print and hand-numbered on the front cover

Vinyl Tracklist
A1 My Favorite Things
B1 Blue Train
B2 I Want To Talk About You

C1 Impressions
C2 I Want To Talk About You
C3 Everytime We Say Goodbye
D1 Bye Bye Blackbird

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Label: The Lost Recordings
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Numbered, Remastered, Mono
Released: 2025
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Modal

File under: Audiophile Jazz
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