John Coltrane - tenor sax McCoy Tyner - piano Jimmy Garrison - bass Elvin Jones - drums "Alabama" is a tribute to four children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an attack at a Birmingham, Alabama church by white supremecists on September 15, 1963. The melody is supposedly based on the speech patterns of Martin Luther King, Jr's eulogy. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJ_0gp-T9A) Written by John Coltrane Recorded November 18, 1963 at the Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey Originally released on the album Live At Birdland, 1963, Impulse! AS-50
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John Coltrane - tenor sax McCoy Tyner - piano Jimmy Garrison - bass Elvin Jones - drums "Alabama" is a tribute to four children killed in t… read more
John Coltrane - tenor sax McCoy Tyner - piano Jimmy Garrison - bass Elvin Jones - drums "Alabama" is a tribute to four children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing… read more
John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazzsaxophonist and composer. American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A leader of "hard bop", in the 1960s he led his own groups and changed the face of jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of spiritual expression. Sometimes called simply 'Trane, his recordings include Giant …read more
John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazzsaxophonist and composer. American jazz great John Coltrane e… read more
John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazzsaxophonist and composer. American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano… read more