My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album)

For the 2007 live album, see My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport.
My Favorite Things
Studio album by
John Coltrane
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.