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The album is dead, for sure. But there's no reason we can't dig it up and do a little two-step with its rapidly decomposing corpse.
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Monday, August 24, 2020
My Favorite Things, John Coltrane
My Favorite Things, John Coltrane, 1961, :40
The title track is the classic "Sound of Music" Rogers and Hammerstein song, turned to a 13-minute saxophone and piano instrumental heavily influenced by Eastern music. Since I don't know anything about chords or musical modes or times, I can't really talk about this music except to say that I enjoy it. Favorite tracks: well, there's only four songs on the album (with two single edits of the title track added to the "deluxe" version of the album), but the title track is a five-star classic, and Cole Porter's "Every Time We Say Goodbye" is also great.