I saw John Coltrane at the Jazz Workshop in April of 1962. He played the song My Favorite Things on his soprano saxophone shown in the picture above. Here is a link to a Youtube of him playing the song in Baden Baden Germany in 1961.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_n-gRS_wdI
And here is another of him playing the same song from Belgium in 1965.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NllPZ5_Tw40&feature=related
We were sitting on the front row at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. I was fascinated by the drummer Elvin Jones. He was wailing away and sweating up a storm. It was a night to remember. And I have never forgotten it. I was 21 years old at the time.
