Live at Birdland (John Coltrane album)

Live at Birdland
Studio album / Live album by
ReleasedJanuary 9, 1964 (1964-01-09)
RecordedOctober 8, 1963 (#1–3)
November 18, 1963 (#4–5)
VenueBirdland, New York City (#1–3)
StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs) (#4–5)
GenreJazz, post-bop
Length38:54 original LP
43:35 CD reissue
LabelImpulse! A-50
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
(1963)
Live at Birdland
(1964)
Coltrane's Sound
(1964)

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 were recorded live at the Birdland club and two are studio recordings. Among them is "Alabama", 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. 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.

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