This is good, but there is just better Coltrane material out there - live or studio. Although it is the shortest track, 1 is perhaps the weakest, with its long sax solo with nothing else towards the end and not much else to offer. It's fine but in the context of the man discography it's wholly forgettable. The live version of My Favorite Things starts off not so great as the mix gives excessive prominence to the sax which looses a bit of the magic of the tune, but once the piano+drum solo starts it gets really quite cool. Then Coltrane goes a bit off tangent near the end, and while I do like me some spicy notes, with this tune it doesn't quite fit. 3 has lots of drums + sax, and much like 2 has cool bits but is a bit lengthy and has not so cool bits. The conclusion is nice. 4 is an enigma, as it comes from a completely different live session and has nothing to do with the rest, being far simpler, dancier, bepopper jazz with a different mix, yet was released as part of the original album tracklist and not as a bonus track on some reedition - or so it seems. A weird choice, that just feels like it lengthens things for no reasons and takes away a bit of the record's identity. 3.6
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