How Coltrane Broke "My Favorite Things" (feat. Adam Neely)
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Coltrane performs 'my favorite things' one last time during the olantunji concert, which is a must listen if you like the original. The song is warped and distorted beyond recognition, and given its context (coltrane knew he was a dying man), it also feels like an eerie outcry. In the 34 minutes of sheer madness, I think you hear the original melody once. It's my favorite jazz track of all time, and I don't think that will change any time soon.
That whole concert has such an other-worldly vibe. Super intense. Poor recording quality, lots of distortion, but damn I'm glad someone caught that magic on tape.
Man I've always wanted to find someone to discuss the Olatunji version with and you've already echoed my sentiments. What I've always said is that he sounded like he was fighting to accept his inevitable death while pleading for an extension because he had so much to offer, so many new ideas to share. The violently screeching sound sound felt like he just opened and threw out all the pieces from his bag of ideas and we're left to figure how the pieces join to make the puzzle.
That Olatunji version is too dark and scary for me and I only visit it for analytical purposes. The original studio version will always be my favourite (excuse the pun) but I also love the live versions from Berlin and Stockholm.
@@samuelsibanda9589 exactly! Couldn't have said it better myself. As someone who mainly listens to free jazz, it's crazy to see someone that late in his career still come up with invigorating and new ideas. It's all so bittersweet, and draws many parallels with bowie's blackstar
Gotta find that! 🙏🏽
Thank you for this comment
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He also had squarespace? How do you think he has garnered such a following?
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This is the collab I’ve always needed
hell yeah
nice profile pic
@@ToonsCraft1 you too
But didn’t know you wanted? Yah same.
The best one after Davis and Coltrane
Coltrane's version almost feels like a world unto itself.
*unto
@@schunando Spelling, unfortunately, was never my strong suit.
@@jackmiller2614 haha no worries dude. We have our moments
@@jackmiller2614 Nothing wrong with "unto," it's just become somewhat archaic in modern English.
McCoy' piano work completely blows my mind at every listen.
Adam Neely AND Polyphonic?!
What is it my birthday?!
It's my friend's birthday, colse enough right?
Maybe not yours but actually mine!
It's literally my birthday today
@@Ceviche4K happy birthday friend!!!
@@miskerss YAYY HAPPY BDAY!!
The Doors loved Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things. The instrumental vamp in Light My Fire uses the progression same with their song Universal Mind.
Actually Universal Mind takes the solo from Coltrane's Afro Blue but it's the same modal progression, Am Bm
No way!
Wait yeah I can kinda hear it
YAY FELLOW DOORS FAN I WISH YOU A GOOD LIFE BROTHER
Since a very young kid, I've loved The Doors and their jazz DNA... I believe they introduced me to "jazz" 💜 (also like elements of Pink Floyd and The Allman Brothers' "Eat a Peach")
Yes exactly! Ray Manzerek's organ solo was heavily inspired by it.
Both songs are absolute masterpieces
I remember the first time I heard this song. It was the day Ornette Coleman died, and it was a cold and rainy day. The soprano sax and the dark chord progressions made it feel perfect for the time, but the piano solo and the rhythm section warmed my heart at the same time. I always think of that experience whenever I hear this track.
Rest In Peace to both sailors
The Caribbean Beat Boutique was the record shop of Kersten's department store in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Somewhere in my late teens in the late seventies I stepped inside at the exact moment when the shop manager, a Dutch guy named Ronnie, put on Coltrane's My Favorite Things. I especially remember how I liked Elvin Jones' drumming.
I stood there listening to the entire number while pretending to be looking for a record.
@@milesbeining Please, keep Jordan Peterson out of this, ok?😄
To me McCoy Tyner's magnificence provides the addictive hypnosis. I can lock into that groove for hours. Thanks Trane, for setting him up to do that.
McCoy died this year (2020). Upon which I cried and cried and cried.
Yeah the piano playing is so focused and powerful with nothing unnecessary. Hard to think it's improvised. Greatness
So Coltrane was edging us with the a section for 12 minutes
In 1961, when I was 19, a good friend (who still is) turned me, a classical-music lover, on to jazz, with two then-recent masterpieces, "Kind of Blue" and "My Favorite Things." Miles and Trane are still my gods of jazz, and these two albums are still my favorites in jazz. The 1st track on the latter, "My Favorite Things," takes off one minute in and flies until the last note 12 minutes later. I've several versions of Coltrane's take on the tune, and many are great, but this, the first one recorded, is still my favorite--still makes me high. What may seem stranger is that it always has and still does validate me in some basic way, makes me feel purposeful, powerful, and important, as if by listening to Coltrane and Tyner I partake in the striving of which this amazing music is the sonic embodiment.
Wow, what a great introduction to jazz!
I started listening to jazz about 13 or 14 years old, I was starting to get frustrated with the current music.
The title of the video sounds like someone broke in your house and broke your favorite things.
"No, Coltrane! Don't break my Beyblades!!1!"
@@danielkhan1 "Too fucking bad"
"How Coltrane Broke My Favorite Things"
Hey John, what the hell?
That got a good laugh out of me.
I absolutely love this song. I was so obsessed with it, that I once listened to it on a plane for the entire flight. There is always something new in it. I now have it on vinyl.
I have listened to it hundreds of times since the 1960's. I seem to know every note before it happens.
What's so special about "having it on vinyl"
The track that took me from Jazz Funk into Jazz, when Coltrane switches keys near the end of the track it absolutely wrenches my heart and soul. Even after listening to this for about 40 years it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. McCoy Tuner was sublime on this piece
I didn't like jazz forever, but then one day I listened to my favorite things and it completely blew me away. It's still my favorite to this day.
Clicked like already. Have to save watching it for later, after the wages workday is done, but this song just blows my mind every time I listen to it. There's a part deep into the song where it seems like McCoy Tyner is hitting one single note over and over, but he's messing with the timing of it, sometimes playing single notes, sometimes triplets, sometimes double notes, so that it sounds like he's playing chords. But to me it's just this one note over and over and over, and it sounds so compelling. So groovy and intense. It is my favorite musical passage of all time. Sublime.
Exactly this ^^^ it floors me every time I hear it.
@@donrosco Isn't it incredible? I guess he's vamping during those parts? My musical vocabulary is pretty limited. Whatever it's called, I love it. What an amazing feel this band had for each other on this song.
Yeah sth like taking one note and painting over it with different embellishments of sound.
This is a comment only a musician could write. Wagie wagie
aimee nolte has a great video exploring that mccoy tyner solo you should check it out
Wish John Contrane broke a few more songs.
Yes....
He did break a few jazz standards and also did summertime in this album and nature boy in his unreleased one
Same
His version of Greensleeves from Africa / Brass is pretty damn great
Contrane?
This recording got me into jazz and it's still my favourite
also for those who don't know, his wife Alice's version is unrealllllll
Alice Coltrane shan't be forgotten, love John too.
Always wondered why that minor to major shift seemed to work so well. The lack of a thirds makes sense. Thanks daddy Neely
😳
Adam has officially improved my musical ear (albeit a little bit). I was listening to My favourite things and I thought it sounded strange that it sounded like the minor scale in the first two rounds yet strangely positive (major scale) near the end. Then I looked up the song's music theory and wound up here. Thanks, Adam.
Nothing in the world is as beautiful and sad as Coltrane's "Every Time We Say Goodbye".
I can't listen to "Say it (over and over again)" from his ballads album anymore bc it makes me too sad its still my favorite ballad
mccoy's solo gives me chills every time
I don't like how they use it to advertise Christmas commodities, seems to miss the point
That reminds me how growing up "Let the Sun Shine In" was used for the Sunshine Inn. It was always so high beat and happy and the sun. Then I saw Hair on Broadway in highschool, and HOLY FUCK THIS SONG IS SAD!?!?!
Yeah, this song has nothing to do with Christmas, but it mentions “snowflakes”, “warm woolen mittens”, and “packages tied up with string”, so people assume it’s a Christmas song.
@@Cohemotgus ooh, my condolences for having to watch Hair
@@termeownator yo its one of my favorite musical. :(
@@Cohemotgus ah I'm sorry bro I was trying to be funny and just ended up being mean. My favorite musical's hms pinafore you can take the piss outta me for that if you like, just so's were even
One of my favorite recordings.. the long version with McCoy Tyner’s piano solo
This. Is the song that got me into jazz, thank you CZcams's algorithm for suggesting this song to me as a teenager.
Thank you very much for this insightful video I hope it gets a billion views. but if even one boy or girl watches this and decides to listen to coltrane's my favorite thing - you have done your share of good in the world.y
Wow, finally a video about Coltrane's approach to "My favourite things". That album indeed, put a spell on me, so beautiful. thanks for this!
Greetings from Argentina.
My favourite things (John Coltrane's version) is probably my favourite piece of modern music
I also believe that it was his way to speak to his community. His mind was so ahead he could have “broken” any song. This way a quiet encouragement nod to all struggling in America at the time. And for that reason alone I have loved it and he is forever a goat. Great video 🔥
The visuals really popped in this pne for me. When Coltrane was standing on stage with Rodgers and Hammerstein and as Coltrane took the song and made it his own, the curtain closed and it was just Coltrane, beautiful👌.
My only problem is that while Coltrane's name is on the record as the leader, it was actually McCoy Tyner who did the arrangement of this piece (and most of the this particular album). I love 'Trane, he's my hero. But it was really Tyner who made this cut.
Coltrane was the leader. He picked the music. Tyner said it was song plugger that brought the song to Trane. According to Tyner and Elvin Jones, Trane pretty much knew what wanted when he came into the studio, and Tyner said he could only recall two rehearsals in the quartet's entire existence. Beyond the intro, the shift from major to minor, and the tag, there really isn't much of arrangement. Tyner, Davis, and Jones might have had some input, but it seems Coltrane already had the concept in mind when he walked into the studio. I think for a lot of listeners in 1961, it was actually the use of the soprano sax (at the time a novelty instrument despite Bechet, Hodges, and Lacy) and that the song was so familiar to the general public that led to the recording's popularity. Tyner said they played it almost every night. It was a song (like Naima) that evolved a great deal over the years. (I must have at least a dozen live recordings of both.) Tyner's first studio recording of My Favorite Things (on Echoes of a Friend), doesn't use the vamp at all.
Coltrane, because of the extensiveness of his soloing, pushed modal playing far further than Miles ever did. Davis was generally exploratory; Davis was far more cautious and restrained. Coltrane always excited me. He was the pioneer.
ive been learning this song for my college audition, greatt timing!!!
Oh shit oh shit oh shit! John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" is one of my favourites recordings of all time! Cheers Polyphonic, this is awesome.
When a 14 minute video about a song is only a minute longer than the song.
The later live recordings are even longer. The Newport and Stockholm recordings from 1963 are around 21 minutes. Live Again at the Village Vanguard is 26 minutes, and Live in Japan is 57 minutes!
Omg I thought I was weird for getting obsessed with this song and listening to it daily but I guess I'm not the only one
I Listened to this song more than anyone alive. A few years ago i listened to it EVERYDAY for over a year and a half, not missing a day. Its my favorite song still. I can play it note for note too. Im with you!!!!
I can't play a note, or read music, but I can't get enough of this piece of music. It's been that way for more than 50 years.
Broke it? Coltrane’s version is by far the best version of the song! Thanks for another great video. Well done!
This is one of the most unexpected, yet most exciting collaboration!!!!
THIS is the video I've been waiting for. One of my favorite songs
Been listening to this tune all month coincidentally and it’s really is a special piece of music. John had such a way of adding little inflections and emotions here and there and really makes the piece his own! Great video!!!
His performance of My Favorite Things in Berlin is an even more extreme take, and one of my favorite jazz songs ever. The absolutely mind bending chord changes Tyner explores consistently through the song are so out there, barely even feeling like the original at points, making even the happier major portions of the piece sound apocalyptic. Not to mention Coltrane's unhinged and sporadic saxophone lines. Watching the video is so fun as well, you can truly see how much passion and intent goes into each note for all of the players
I feel like these videos, production quality wise especially, just keep getting better and better the more I watch them
Dude, no way!! This is one of my favorite songs of all time. This is why I love your channel, bc your music taste is so bomb. I was VERY pleasantly surprised when I saw this notification.
I love your content, but your visuals are stunning as well. Thanks for being so dedicated to making a visually stunning work.
what an incredible song! it appeared on a spotify instrumental jazz playlist i was listening as background music to study but when this came out i could not ignore it and i ended up obsessed
There is a great version of this track mashed up with someday my prince will come and moanin' put together by Yoko Kanno for Kids on the Slope AKA Sakamichi no Apollon
I avoided the record simply because of the length, now I'm going to listen to it because it sounds awesome.
I always wish it wouldn’t end! And I played it over and over again. And as I write this, there is literally a tear in my eye, from the few snippets heard in this video.
I haven't started the video yet but I'm already so excited. This is my favorite coltrane song.
Only came across this track and album a few months ago. So glad to see an analysis on the track
Do you guys have a playlist? I absolutely love this channel , and how much you appreciate great music!
I enjoyed this video on so many levels ... firstly, for the music and my love for Jazz, particularly Coltrane, then for the use of graphics as well - from the typography to the collage graphic design. En pointe !
Moving from A minor to A major means a shift of three notes: FCG all go sharp
so quite a bit of wiggle room there, but keeping the tonal centre.
I love this recording and I'm very happy that you and Adam Neely connected the two threads of musical theater and bebop.
This is such a great video thank you so much!!!
Immediately: the editing on this video is a-ma-zing. Excited for this vid.
the really interesting thing about coltranes my favorite things is how it evolves from the first studio recording to his death. if you ever have a few hours to spend, try listening to them chronologically, really an amazing way to hear his journey from modal jazz to free jazz. my favorite version is the newport '63 version, roy hanes is on the drums and his snarework is absoletely ridiculous
I've been listening closely to Coltrane for almost 30 years and I've heard every version of MFT available. I totally agree ... Newport 63 is fantastic, energetic and joyful. It's my favorite MFT, tied with the Juan Le Pins/Antibes 1965 version.
For years I have been listening to my favorite thing, desperate to know how Coltrane got the last couple minutes to sound so incredible. I listen to this song a lot and it always gives me the chills when I get to that B section. And I’m so happy to know why that is now. Thank you.
Great content, design and typography is fab too. Lovely environment for an instructional video. Thanks.
That was outstanding, man. Fabulous job.
Nice video, nice channel - and it's always great to see long form breakdowns of specific recordings. There have been several in depth discussions of Trane's recording of My favourite things over the years. Some present it as an ironic reading of a cheesy mainstream hit (actually it was good to see that this particular analysis didn't take that particular approach, and respected the integrity of the original). But... what I think many analyses (especially those analyses written by cultural critics etc, other than pure jazz musicians) skip over is the fact that jazz musicians had always taken broadway tunes as their main material. Right up to the 60s (less so since), the main source for jazz tunes (other than tunes written by jazz musicians) was the so-called Great American Songbook. Still today, go to any jam session, a large proportion of the tunes played are pre- 1960 musical numbers. So, when Trane started playing My Favourite Things, he was continuing a long-standing tradition, and I personally give less significance to his choice of material per se, than many such analyses seem to. That's not to say that Trane's first recording was anything less than excellent. I love many of his subsequent live versions too: check out Live at the Village Vanguard Again. Nice video though!
This piece got me into Coltrane...I also had the same obsession when I first listened to it. Great analysis, it showcases Coltrane's music genius mind.
I knew instantly this would be an amazing video. I haven't stopped thinking about Coltrane's version since I heard it for the first time last month
Polyphonic!
Such a great video! I also love John Coltranes ‘my favourite things’ play it over and over, and love diving deep into where he goes with it, riding on top and alongside the bass, piano and drums. So this video was really interesting for me. Thankyou so much for making it. please can you let me know what’s your source for Coltrane being inspired by the raga system and tampura drone used in Indian classic music? It’d be really helpful for me to know.
Many thanks again!
There are recordings of them playing "My Favorite Things" for over an hour. (Live in Japan and the Olatanji (sp?) Concert, for instance. I've heard that sometimes they would ONLY play MFT.
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I've heard them play that song in the Half Note in NYC for 2 hrs... At one point, Trane did a 45-minute duet with Elvin Jones. All this and a meatball hero for $3.50. The perks of being old. :-)
Man, I just love how you describe music. It's like poetry.
Oh my... I am a freaking music lover of all kinds and this is my all-time favorite song... It's melodic, but bends.. It's familiar and unknown, and pulses along... and builds until it breaks through... (McCoy Tyner amazes me) Brilliant analysis; Thank you for covering this song.
Beautiful song. I still listen to it today. Coltrane was great.
What a warm, obscure, and enveloping song. My fav jazz track
ADAM NEELY! A couple of my favorite music-tubers, yesss
Thanks for doing this!
Your content is beyond extraordinary. Thank you so much for all of your hard work. And I’m so happy that you included Adam Neely in this. You two are cut from the same cloth.
Great Video! Love these VIDEOS!!! Awesome Job! THANK YOU SO MUCH
dude i’ve had this song on repeat for the last few weeks now and then i find this. GLAD TO KNOW IM NOT ALONE OBVIOUSLY.
Dude, I love the graphics of your videos!
It’s been on my CZcams playlist. Listen to it at least once a day.
this has always been one of my all time favorite recordings
no pun intended
It's certainly one of my favorite things. Pun intended. ; )
Great Video- Finally 2 of my favorite creators coming together
Damn this video is so good. The animation, the script, the collab. NEW SUB
Insane that I found this, just got really into Carnatic music and Alices work
Carnatic music is awesome.
This guy's editing is amazing
FINALLY, the music collab we've been waiting
A Lot of great info! Awesome Job! Thank you
The first time i heard it i was in awe. Its a masterpiece. Every instrument is stunning.
Great video, learned a lot - also, love your type skills! 💀🔥🎶
Excellent video as always!
Fabulous Graphics!! Typo-Graphics Too!!
Excellent research !
Thank you ))
I like how both polyphonic and adam kept their own editing styles in the video
This is my first polyphonic video I’ve seen and I’m already in love. It gives me big Vox Earworm vibes.
thank you, great video
Perfect, as usual! one of my favorite Coltrane interpretation!
I really enjoyed this. I've been listening to "Things" for 50 years, yet this video taught me so much more...
god, the editing is so smooth
This was super cool man great work
This was the first song that ive learned on the piano. I just like it for some reason.
I was shocked to see you have the Come From Away poster. I live in Gander, the town that musical was based on.
Hey this is a great informative video. You did great research and I have learned quite a number of things I didn't know. Thank you deeply for this upload. Awesome work.
I'm a Coltrane nut, but still learned a bucketload in this video. So interesting and so well made. Quality. Big thumbs up.
Lovely. Thank you for this. Think of "Things" as a meditation. Loved it since it came out. Wife's not a jazz fan but she loves this as well.
I was so excited when I saw you made a Coltrane video
Two of my favorite channels, one video. Hell yeah.
This is the collab I'm looking for.