Live at Birdland (John Coltrane album)

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Live at Birdland (titled on the cover Coltrane live at Birdland) is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released on January 9, 1964, through Impulse! Records. Three of its tracks ("Afro Blue", "I Want to Talk About You", "The Promise") were recorded live at the Birdland club on October 8th 1963, and the others ("Alabama", "Your Lady", "Vilia") are studio recordings. "Alabama" is a tribute to four black children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a white supremacist terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama. The album's original pressing accidentally included a false start; this was corrected in later copies but restored in CD editions. This live recording of "I Want to Talk About You", a song Coltrane had recorded on his 1958 album Soultrane, has an extended cadenza here.

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