How did a song of such girlish sweetness, such innocent yearning, became a jazz standard?
Great choice! I would play John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" to my history class to show how far jazz came.
Yes! I love the repurposing of kind of saccharine songs and mining them for all kinds of interesting takes. You see it with hip-hop too. Tupac using Bruce Hornsby‘s “That’s Just the Way It Is“ is a favorite.
Great choice! I would play John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" to my history class to show how far jazz came.
Yes! I love the repurposing of kind of saccharine songs and mining them for all kinds of interesting takes. You see it with hip-hop too. Tupac using Bruce Hornsby‘s “That’s Just the Way It Is“ is a favorite.