The French writer Frank Tenot was in New York during October 1960, and was invited to the "My Favorite Things" session on October 21st. In the January 1962 edition of the French "Jazz Magazine" Tenot contributed a piece to the Coltrane special, which was featured across multiple pages, and had articles by two other writers. I've been reading about the 2022 remastering of "My Favorite Things" and this inspired me to complete the English translation that I had started in 2018. Some of the originally translated article formed the blog entry John Coltrane the Obsessive I must practice, I must practice... I still have to train and improve. It is with these words that John Coltrane replied more than a year ago, to the warm congratulations I gave him at the end of the Atlantic Studios recording session for "My Favorite Things". His forehead was lined with worry as he stared at his soprano sax like it was a poisonous snake. Yet everyone thought the...
Jamo Spingal