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My Favorite Things ~ John Coltrane
My Favorite Things was the seventh studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, recorded on October 21, 24, 26, 1960. Released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, it was the first album to feature him playing soprano saxophone, a gift from Miles Davis while they were on tour in Europe. An edited version of the title track became a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 via radio airplay, thus helping the record become a major commercial success. In 1998, the album received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. Fifty-eight years after its release, in 2018 the album attained gold record status, having sold 500,000 copies.
The title track is a modal rendition of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. The melody is heard numerous times throughout, but instead of playing solos over the written chord changes, both Tyner and Coltrane take extended solos over vamps of the two tonic chords, E minor and E major played in waltz time. This use of modal jazz is evident throughout the album.
The album consists of four songs with Cole Porter’s Ev’rytime We Say Goodbye following the title track on Side 1, then two from the brothers Gershwin, George and Ira, with Summertime and But Not For Me on Side 2. The length of the album is a mere 40:25 but is well worth the listen and a valued addition to any music library that one desires to build.
In the documentary The World According to John Coltrane, narrator Ed Wheeler remarks on the impact that this song’s popularity had on Coltrane’s career: The recording was a hit and became Coltrane’s most requested tune, and a bridge to his broad public acceptance.
The band features John Coltrane playing soprano saxophone on Side 1 and tenor on Side 2, McCoy Tyner on piano, Steve Davis on the double bass, and rounding out the quartet is drummer Elvin Jones.
The production team was Nesuhi Ertegün ~ producer, Tom Dowd, Phil Iehle ~ engineers, Lee Friedlander ~ photography, Loring Eutemey ~ cover design and Bill Coss wrote the liner notes.
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Diego Maroto was born in Mexico City, Mexico on May 9, 1968. He started taking private saxophone lessons in 1985 from teachers Larry Roussell and Alfonso Martínez. Two years later he studied art history at the Universidad Iberoamericana and in 1988 he joined the jazz worksop at the Escuela Superior de Música (INBA), where he learned improvisation, arrangement and composition by Francisco Tellez. His continuing education took him to private lessons from Danny Matusack and Darryl Winsman.
In 1991, Diego became an active member of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). During this period he participated in worksops and courses with David Liebman, Ernie Watts, Arturo Sandoval, Brian Bromberg, David Baker, Jerry Bergonzi, Ran Blake, Mike Campbell, Bill Dobbins, Andy Laverne, Don Sickler and Chris Vandala.
He has recorded and performed on projects with some of Mexico’s top jazz musicians like Eugenio Toussaint, Agustin Bernal, Enrique Neri, Fernando Toussaint, Cristobal López, Chilo Moran, Miguel Salas, Francisco Téllez, Iraida Noriega, and Big Band Arte 01, to name a few. In 2004, Maroto recorded his debut solo album Mundo Paralelo. He has performed at Dizzy’s in New York, and has shared stages with Antonio Sanchez, George Duke and Stanley Clarke. He has since formed the Diego Moaroto Asian Trio, and recorded a live album in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the No Black Tie jazz club.
As an educator, Diego has given lessons, clinics and seminars in important schools and institutions in Mexico. Tenor saxophonist Diego Maroto continues to perform, record, tour and teach.
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Matt Bauder was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 3, 1976 and attended the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and earned a bachelor of fine arts in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
From 1999 to 2001 he lived in Chicago, Illinois where he was a part of the city’s modern jazz and improvised music scene. Matt attended graduate school at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut studying under Anthony Braxton and received a master’s degree in composition. He lived in Berlin, Germany for a year, then moved to New York City in 2005.
In 2003, Bauder released his debut album, Weary Already of the Way, on 482 Music. His sophomore album in 2007 was the first album from his long-form improvisational jazz trio Memorize the Sky, featuring Bauder on saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and percussion, Zach Wallace on bass, vibraphone and percussion, and Aaron Siegel on drums and percussion. The band released two more albums in 2008 and 2010.
His next trio, Hearing Things, had the saxophonist leading JP Schlegelmilch on organ and Vinnie Sperrazza on drums. Never limiting himself to one genre, Bauder’s next venture formed the doo-wop jazz group White Blue Yellow & Clouds, covering songs by the Beach Boys, The Flaminogos and The Mystics.
His Brooklyn-based jazz quintet Day in Pictures released two albums on Clean Feed Records, in which heplayed tenor saxophone and composed the songs on both albums. Matt has since performed as part of the Arcade Fire’s touring lineup, played saxophone and clarinet on Will Butler’s debut album Policy, and has played in the Broadway production of Fela!
Ever busy, saxophonist Matt Bauder continues to perform, compose and collaborate on numerous projects across genres.
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Glenn Paul Zottola was born in Port Chester, New York on April 28, 1947. He started playing jazz professionally in 1960.
Glenn is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, and Bob Wilber, and has accompanied a broad range of vocalists, including Mel Tormé, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Williams.
He has recorded over 50 albums with Butch Miles, Bob Wilber, Mousey Alexander, Steve Allen, Phil Bodner, George Kelly, Peggy Lee, George Masso, George Masso, and Maxine Sullivan, among numerous others.
In 1988, was a featured soloist at the 50th anniversary of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert. In 1995, Zottola was bandleader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV talk show at Universal Studios.
Trumpeter and saxophonist Glenn Zottola, who has recorded twenty-two albums as a leader, continues to perform and record.
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