John Coltrane: Alabama [Live]

John Coltrane: saxophone
McCoy Tyner: piano
Jimmy Garrison: bass
Elvin Jones: drums

Alabama is a John Coltrane composition that appears on his album Live at Birdland (1963). It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack carried out by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls…