John Coltrane - My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport (2007)
FLAC (tracks, scans) - 579 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 MB
1:19:33 | Jazz, Free Jazz, Post Bop, Modal | Label: Impulse!
FLAC (tracks, scans) - 579 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 MB
1:19:33 | Jazz, Free Jazz, Post Bop, Modal | Label: Impulse!
John Coltrane appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival on five different occasions, the first in 1958 as a member of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue-era sextet. As a bandleader, Coltrane performed at the festival in 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1966, and it is the middle two sets that are combined here on this intriguing release. The 1963 band was a variation on Coltrane's classic quartet (Coltrane on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass) with veteran drummer Roy Haynes sitting in for Jones, who was unable to be in attendance. Jones was back in the drum chair for the 1965 appearance, while Coltrane's final Newport showing in 1966 found him working with an entirely different band that included his wife Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. Since Coltrane did lengthy versions of his signature arrangement of "My Favorite Things" in both 1963 and 1965 (he did it in 1966, as well), it's impossible not to compare the approach of the two different drummers.