John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This video explores how Coltrane took the cheerful Sound of Music tune and turned it ...

If your annual “Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?” debate is getting played out, (it is, and it is) here’s another one: is “My Favorite Things” a Christmas song? “My Favorite Things” was written by ...

The first time he heard John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things," Robin Washington was about 6 years old, killing time outside the Chicago office of the Congress of Racial Equality. His mother ...

So you're at a company shindig, talking to a group of colleagues over hors d'oeuvres, when the background music finally becomes too grating to pass by without comment. "They should just put on some ...

Some rediscovered archival recordings by great musicians are more noteworthy for their news value than for their artistic significance. Others are treasures that extend a view of the artists’ ...

Impulse! celebrates John Coltrane’s 75th birthday anniversary with the release of a CD series documenting Coltrane’s musical development. Impulse! will also release The Olatunji Concert (The Last Live ...

Toward the end of John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations, the saxophonist stops playing. So do bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, mainstays of Coltrane’s fierce quartet, making what ...