My favorite things - which version usually gets called at jams?

[pamosmusic]

Ugh.

Beautiful tune, but it's the perfect balance of Well-Known and Complicated.

People know it really well so they think they can play it, but it's just complicated enough to be a pain in the a** without a rehearsal.

In my experience, this is the number one Potential Train Wreck I hear at jam sessions.

Didn't realize this was an old thread and that I had literally already posted this exact thing several months ago.

Leaving this post up though, because with the Christmas season coming up ... IT MUST BE SAID AGAIN.

[JazzPadd]

This gets called at jam sessions in my neck of the woods, but mostly as a vocal number, so the keys vary depending on the singer. I couple of times, without a vocalist, it was in E minor (the key in the Jazz Standard Bible, something like a Real Book here in Japan that's used for spontaneous playing to enable everyone being on the same page, literally); I fiddled with some Gabor Szabo inspired open string ad-lib. There was one memorable jam a few years ago, however, with some horn players who blew the roof off the place with a piano trio. I was luckily sitting out and watching but I think I grasped for the first time how 3 beats can be felt as 2.

[Mick-7]

Here's what happened to a guy who called this tune once too many times at a jam session....

[GuyBoden]

In the past, I've played 'My Fav Things' at wedding receptions, people seemed to like it and clap, probably because they know the tune.

But, I kept my improv simple and close to the melody notes.