John Coltrane Soprano "My Favorite Things" Newport 66 Part 2

Part 2 of 2. John Coltrane's unreleased second soprano saxophone solo from the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival's version of "My Favorite Things." Rashied Ali, drums, Pharoah Sanders, tenor, Jimmy Garrison, bass, Alice Coltrane, piano.

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• my
• favorite
• things

[pongosgroove5]

there was just something about this band that was so profound

[opinioninflicting]

@pongosgroove5 Yeah, I would read Joseph Campbell before a jazz critic, if you want to know "why."

[BennyGaberMusic]

@us13doolittle Indeed, I am myself an atheist, for very personal reasons, and the belief in god is not a ridiculous thing as people try to reach the outer being or as I might say the outer knowledge that we believe in being the ultimate of everything. Even if you are a atheist you have the believe that this universe holds a centre of creation, maybe not god, but something else. John was reaching to this being.

Lol sorry for the speach im a bit drunk.

[mantaishere]

Just. Holy crap. This is the most INTENSE shit I've ever heard in my life.

[cavaleer]

Here it is. The deepest, hungriest, most intense and lofty pursuit of pure sound that may ever have manifested- at his peak, right before the end.

[fastborzoi]

Coltrane was VERY spirtual

[nakim55]

I think if someone believes in God, they would not be calling other people "pin headed twits." Not a very spiritual outlook. Just my humble opinion.

[BennyGaberMusic]

@LFWOL I'm pretty sure Stravinsky was on John's same spiritual level when he was writing the Rites Of Spring. I'm not talking about the drugs.

[ShadKiklas]

We are no better than everything we hate

[jules0659]

@LFWOL Equal silliness to say "there are thousands of musicians on his level...". Just how would you know that? As for "Coltrane was on drugs", that just shows ignorance of the turns his life took away from drugs and alcohol and towards spirituality. In any case, since when did drug addiction prevent artists reaching the highest pinnacles of achievement?  Think Beethoven, for example.