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| Released | January 9, 1964[1][2] | |||
| Recorded | October 8, 1963 (#1–3) March 6, 1963 (#6, CD only) November 18, 1963 (#4–5) | |||
| Venue | Birdland, New York City (#1–3) | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs) (#4–5) | |||
| Genre | Jazz, post-bop | |||
| Length | 38:54 original LP 43:35 CD reissue | |||
| Label | Impulse! A-50 | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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Live at Birdland (stylized on the cover as 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.[1][2][3] 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.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz |  [5] |
| Record Mirror |  [6] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [7] |
- ^ a b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 689. ISBN 9780415634632.
- ^ a b Ostrow, Marty; Howard, Ira; Lichtman, Irv, eds. (January 18, 1964). "ABC-Par's 33 New Albums Is a Record-setting Issue" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on Oct 8, 2022.
- ^ Bailey, C. Michael. "John Coltrane: Live At Birdland". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "John Coltrane Live at Birdland". AllMusic. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "John Coltrane: Live At Birdland" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 176. 25 July 1964. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-15. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 47. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.