Live_at_Birdland_(John_Coltrane_album)
Live at Birdland (John Coltrane album)
1964 studio album / Live album by John Coltrane
Live at Birdland (stylized on the cover as Coltrane live at Birdland) is an album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane that features both live and in-studio components. It was released on January 9, 1964 through Impulse! Records.[1][2][3] Like the earlier album Impressions, and despite the album's title, only three of its tracks were actually recorded live at the Birdland club; the remainder are studio recordings. Among them is "Alabama", a tribute to four black children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama perpetrated by white supremacists.
The album's original pressing accidentally included a false start–– this was corrected in later copies, but restored in CD editions. The album also features a live recording of "I Want to Talk About You", a song Coltrane had recorded on his 1958 album Soultrane, this time with an extended cadenza.