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Sunday, September 23, 2007

One of My Favorite Things: Happy Birthday John Coltrane

On September 23, 1926 jazz great John Coltrane blew his first note. I'm not conversant enough in the idiom of bop to put into words the beauty of his playing, so I'll let his sax speak for itself in this clip of his classic take on "My Favorite Things" ...

4 comments:

runnerfrog said...

an outstanding track. my favourite of coltrane.

Francis Scudellari said...

Thanks for the comment. I'm always surprised at the music clips I can find on YouTube.

Para said...

Love Coltrane.

Francis Scudellari said...

Me too. The sounds not great, but I love this track and video clip. It made me dig out all my Coltrane CDs.