Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things

Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things
Studio album / Live album by John Coltrane
Released	1969 (1969)
Recorded	July 7, 1963 Newport Jazz Festival October 14, 1965 studio, Los Angeles
Genre	Jazz, post-bop, free jazz
Label	Impulse! AS-9161
Producer	Bob Thiele

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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things is a posthumous album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1969.

Track listing

Original LP release Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things (Impulse!)

Side One

1. "My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein) – 17:31

Side Two

1. "I Want to Talk About You" (Billy Eckstine) – 8:17
2. "Selflessness" (John Coltrane) – 15:09

Personnel

"My Favorite Things" and "I Want to Talk About You" (#1, 2), recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1963

• John Coltrane — soprano saxophone
• McCoy Tyner — piano
• Jimmy Garrison — double bass
• Roy Haynes — drums

"Selflessness" (#3), recorded in Los Angeles on October 14, 1965

• John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
• Pharoah Sanders — tenor saxophone
• Donald Garrett — bass clarinet, double bass
• McCoy Tyner — piano
• Jimmy Garrison — double bass
• Elvin Jones — drums
• Frank Butler — drums
• Juno Lewis — vocals, percussion