My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport is a compilation album by jazz musician John Coltrane released by Impulse! in 2007. It brings together tracks from performances by Coltrane’s quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 7, 1963, and July 2, 1965.
The 1963 tracks feature Roy Haynes on drums, substituting for Elvin Jones, who was a patient at the Lexington Narcotics Hospital/Clinical Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky from mid-April to late July of that year. Two of the 1963 tracks (“My Favorite Things” and “I Want to Talk About You”) were released in 1969 on Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things, and all three 1963 tracks were released in 1978 on The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 2: To the Beat of a Different Drum and in 1993 on Newport ’63. The version of “Impressions” on My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport is about eight minutes longer than the previously-released version; the edit of the earlier version was missing the opening theme, piano solo, and bass solo, whereas the longer version is only missing the bass solo…read more.
Album Data
Released: 2007
Recorded: July 7th, 1963 & July 2nd, 1965
Record Label: Impulse! Records
Location Recorded: Newport Jazz Festival
Producer: Bob Thiele
Album Length: 79 min / 35 sec
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