Everytime We Say Goodbye (LP Version)

John Coltrane | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album My Favorite Things

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Label: Atlantic Records/ATG
• Copyright: 1960 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International outside the United States
• Duration: 5:41 minutes
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• ASIN: B00122WM9M
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,621 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Coltrane transforms ordinary tunes into standards that are timeless, November 18, 2010

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Richard Fitzpatrick "Dick531" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everytime We Say Goodbye (LP Version) (MP3 Download)

This is simply the master at his best. Cole Porter's "Everytime We say Goodbye" is somewhat overlooked because of the artist's elevation of 'My Favorite Things" from saccharine to the near sublime in the album with that same title. Coltrane's 13:41 treatment of "My Favorite Things" is an eye-opener to jazz fans who regard it and the rest of the "Sound of Music" score as pretty, but second-rate from a Richard Rogers/Oscar Hammerstein collaboration that was in decline. No doubt, Coltrane's treatment of "My favorite things' rescued it from obsolescence and secured it a place in the jazz repetory. Still, the Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" is much the superior song. Start with the lyrics that are Porter at the top of his game--
Everytime we say goodbye, I die a little,
Everytime we say goodbye, I wonder why a little...

"When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it...
There's no love song finer, but how strange the change
from major to minor,
Everytime we say goodbye.

Coltrane's soprano sax (which he rarely played) has a haunting sound--almost like a French horn--to evoke the wistful lyrics. Coltrane is is accompanied by a young McCoy Tyner on piano, who also contributes a definitive solo. Indeed, for five minutes and 39 seconds "there is no love song finer" than this masterpiece written by Cole Porter and played by John Coltrane and his group.