John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution of “My Favorite Things” is a thesis by Scott Anderson, completed as an independent research project for the Honors in Music History and Literature program at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Spring 1996.
It was presented at the Tenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 1996, University of North Carolina—Asheville and at the Pi Kappa Lambda Spring Banquet, May 1996, Gustavus Adolphus College.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- John Coltrane before “My Favorite Things”
- “My Favorite Things” before John Coltrane
- “My Favorite Things”: Coltrane’s interpretation
- Analyses of four Coltrane performances of “My Favorite Things”:
- I. 21 October 1960, Atlantic Studios, New York, NY
- II. 7 July 1963, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
- III. 2 July 1965, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
- IV. 22 July 1966, Sankei Hall, Tokyo, Japan
- Motivations
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Bibliography
