Alabama helped me a lot in spiritual life. Pulled out of many troubles. Crying until now, when I listen. Greetings from Russia, I bow low. John is in my heart forever.
Without any lyrics just his sax you can hear the expression of grief he plays to pay tribute to the alabama church bombing. Coltrane will always live on as one of the greatest musician to ever live on this planet.
Ce titre, je le considère comme un des plus aboutis de la discographie de ce géant jamais égalé... Coltrane apporte une profondeur presque mystique à la musique et transporte tout mélomane qui se respecte dans un univers d'une richesse incomparable, sa musique continue à me hanter littéralement, et ce morceau me suivra jusqu'à ma mort !
the politics surrounding music, can NEVER be irrelevant, That's WHY the man wrote the gorgeous work of art, an emotional response to a real world horrifying act. Love
MISTRY everything is inherently attached to politics. What you chose to eat for breakfast this morning is inherently attached to politics. You’re just pretending you live in a vacuum.
This has to be one of my favorite John Coltrane songs. I'm playing this for our Civil Rights Museum on my Alto Saxophone. Those four little girls deserved a better life than what they got. This world needs to change and it needs to change to something better.
The set was powerful intense yet held back. Some of the heaviest hitters in jazz at the time. You can feel the rain in McCoys piano. Alvin's drums are powerful and takes the forefront by default. I captured his last performance here in DC before he died. It was a blessing and honor to see he play. At 80 something he was still the Jazz Machine brother.
Truly haunting and at the same time irrefutably beautiful. I can’t help but sob everytime I hear this timeless masterpiece of a song. So full of emotion without saying a single word. Have faith brothers, we’ll fight for a better future for the human race. ✊🏽
One of the greatest numbers in not only Jazz but in any kind of music --.. IN 1963......FOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN LITTLE GIRLS LOST THEIR LIVES AFTER A BOMB RIPPED THROUGH THE 16th STREET BAPTIST CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA BY a RACISTS ORGANIZED
Sean Doyle wow, reaching for white, how sad, I once knew a man and sax player named Bubba Brooks, look him up, he made beautiful music, he only reached to be the best
A gripping, spiritual and beautiful tribute to an incredibly evil and tragic event. John Coltrane used music to liberate and elevate the soul of all people of good will and moral consciousness. I am a son of the south and grew up in Mississippi only a few hours from Birmingham and even closer to the tragedy that occurred in Philadelphia Mississippi. We must never forget. With love and honor!
we need musicians and artists to express the deep truth as john coltrane did, still necessary today as ever. all good things to you john, you gave the world so much.
the only way I can fathom disliking this particular song is that it has to be written John Coltranes father and grandfather would no doubt be incredibly proud of him incredibly is an understatement rip little souls xoxoxoxoxo
So in PBS' Chasing Trane documentary (now on Netflix) there's a section on the Birmingham tragedy at around 52:00. It's related that Trane, "...told McCoy Tyner that he developed the melody for Alabama out of the speech that MLK gave...". Incidentally, the documentary's commentary says Trane wrote Alabama some months after the bombing. In fact he performed it in New York less than a month after the event. That track is on Spotify as part of the Coltrane At Work album. Any further info on this extraordinary piece would be most appreciated.
That is correct. McCoy Tyner told me that Coltrane based Alabama on the rhythm of Reverend King's speech given in memory of the girls. If you play the speech and the composition side by side you will hear it.
This is a song I love listen to . I reflect on back then and now, today with the pervasive racism and bigotry in the world. This song is like a eulogy it helps me feel better and wanting to help end this madness. Kudos to Mr Coltrane and company for this poignant and penetrating song. PEACE AND BLESSINGS.
Ellington greatest conposer. Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker greatest players. Miles greatest small group leader and innovator. Monk greatest original imo and 2nd greatest composer. Mingus top 5 bass player and 3rd greatest composer. This group here is the greatest jazz quartet! See I’ve listened to the whole of jazz history and feel like I have an informed opinion on these matters! Peace. Could go and on breaking down the various categories but this will do for now!
The ending had me emotional... I've lived the majority of my life in Tuscaloosa AL. It's a college town about thirty minutes or so from 16th Street, Birmingham. I've been to the Church many times. The feeling I get when I'm near it is unexplainable. It's just so surreal to know that something so senseless and tragic happened so close to home.
I first heard this song in the documentary "Eyes on the Prize". It was playing during the scenes of the burial of Malcolm X. It was so appropriate and moving that I had to search for it. I'm glad I found it.
I will never forget the afternoon when my mother and I were listening to Coltrane, and this incredible piece started. She let out a gasp and grabbed my arm, wouldn't let go, so I took her in my arms and just held her. After it was finished she recovered herself and told me that she had flashed back to a childhood memory---growing up in what is now Ukraine, and a Friday night in the synagogue where the cantor was singing a horror story about how the ancient Hebrews were struggling thousands of years ago. I told her that Coltrane was talking to us through the saxophone---to her, to me, and to all the others who were struggling in very much the same way. The first notes of the opening recitative had brought it all back to her, and we both understood---and remembered, as we were doing now, centuries later.
YASS!!! Much gratitude to Katie Cappiello, the creator, writer and executive producer of Grand Army for using this platform as a teachable moment for the millions of people she has/will have reached thru Grand Army plus the other venues where her work is portrayed!!! Grand Army is absolutely PHENOMENAL!!! Looking for Season 2!
When I heard about the latest US police shootings of African American citizens, I thought about this song. Sonny Rollins said, "At one time in my life I thought that this world could change and get more peaceful, with everybody loving each other and all this hope. But then I learned, and I lived a little longer.I realised that this world will never change. This world is meant to be a place of war, killing, everything - sickness, illness, death. That's this world.I'm very fortunate that I was blessed to live my life playing my music."
I think you'd be surprised if you looked up the original context for why this song was composed. Sometimes artists have something specific in mind that they're responding to, which for some people becomes inseparable from the experience of listening to the music.
Heartbreaking and beautiful...anger and rage subdued by the sadness and frustration..and still a soaring spirit in their artistry....true masters of emotion and expression...
A quarter that operated on a visionary level so intense that most of us could just endeavor to follow along and hope to grasp at least a small percentage of that extraordinary level of creativity. But then along comes a piece like this, which conveys the impact of a truly horrific event in a manner better than any news account could do. Not just Elvin Jones' work at the finale, but the look on Jimmy Garrison's face says it all. Genius of the highest order. The mind most definitely still boggles, more than a half century after the fact.
Yesterday my partner played this song and it was my first time listening this. after first minute we started to cry. That's how deep is this song even if you don't know the backstory about this song you'll cry because you can feel the pain in every note.
@@Eyupxc That’s like saying you’re reading a book without understanding what it’s about. The song specifically was made because of a horrific event that occurred. I encourage you to know why.
When I was a little kid growing up in San Francisco, we used to watch Jazz Casual on Sunday afternoons after church. I remember seeing this whole show on Channel 9, one of the 1st PBS stations.... no commercials. Wow. I used to read Ralph's column in the "Pink" Section of the Sunday paper without fail. We listen to this little snap-shot in time with jaded-azzed 2018 ears... we didn't even have stereo records at this time. We are bombarded with insane volume of images and sound in modern life. We didn't always watch the TeeVee, not all cars had radios, there weren't that many stations yet. Any live news was shot on film. You gotta understand what a fantastic thing it was that the series got made in the first place. There wasn't anything remotely this heavy on TeeVee. Find the Big Brother and Janis show! And the Sonny Rollins Jim Hall... I got about ten of the shows on VHS from the local library a couple years ago. Insanely great musicianship. You know, all thee years later this stuff still make the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Bright Moments!
Music is a universal language that will forever unite us towards a better world where we can all live in peace and harmony. Love you all. Peace and Health 🤍✌🏼
On the afternoon of November 18, 1963 John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and recorded the tune Alabama. Coltrane kept his thoughts and feelings to himself, but it was clear that he was playing a eulogy for the victims of the bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama two months prior. The sorrowful melody captures the sadness that one felt over that tragic event, and the whole human injustice that sparked the civil rights movement. 3:03 [The Music Aficionado]
One of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard. The way it builds toward rage but remains - barely - controlled and then eases back to dignity and beauty.
Had to listen to this after learning of the school shooting that took place today in Texas..school shootings have been happening ever since I was young in the early 2010s and now that I'm a young man it's wild to see that there more frequent now and it's happening in elementary school more often, I'm living in an era where kids that are younger than me are dying just by being at school it's complete madness in America..May God rest all those Children's souls and all the other Children who died by gun violence
That is absolutely right! I would also like to add: regardless of gender, age and origin. Music is a language that all people in this world can understand, provided they still have feelings and ores to hear.
The beauty of this piece does not rest in social justice...........but lies in the sojourn of the soul through sorrow, pain, and forgiveness and hope for the restoration of humanity.....through Trains universal connection a universal truth is presented - that is all men must fall but falling does not mean you can not be restored........live humanity...practice peace.......peace&blessings!
I heard this piece for the first time when I was twelve 45 years ago when I bought a record of jazz selections in a small town in rural Canada. I didn't know what the piece referenced but I could hear the anguish. I've been a Coltrane fan ever since and Alabama has remained my favourite piece of his. It's also so appropriate hear that piece today when the senate election is occurring in Alabama as one of the candidates, Doug Jones, help bring two of those poor girls' killer to justice. The world would be a better place if we listened to more Coltrane.
i have a top 50 list of greatest things my ears have ever heard (you should make one as well it"s enlightening) and this song is one of them. The beginning of the song always seems to make me cry, the end as well. By the way, that top 50 list can include songs, raindrops, something someone said, etc... God bless you.
From wikipedia: "It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls." The look on Elvin Jones face, you feel their grief.
You should try playing this song while listening to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Alabama speech. Coltrane wrote the melody based off the speech so the pitches all fit together and adds even more emotion to both the song and the speech
Au risque de paraître insistant... Un alabama très spiritual, un Coltrane toujours merveilleux, un plaisir sans pareil, un bienfait pour l'âme et le corps. Hear my trane comin', I hear freedom comin'...
There is unjustifiable evil in the world. And it takes an evolved human being like a John Coltrane to lift us from this terribly state of despair by the healing power of his music.
Ravi Coltrane performance of this piece, along with Jack DeJohnette and Matt Garrison is outstanding. Listening and specially playing this theme is something of another word.
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Thank you grand army for putting me on to this.
rightt !
Facts bro
@@Registruelove Word bro
Sorry I was rude
Oh fuck grand army can't wait for 01 10
It’s amazing how Coltrane could make his instrument say more than most lyricists ever could. Such a mesmerizing piece.
Alabama helped me a lot in spiritual life. Pulled out of many troubles. Crying until now, when I listen. Greetings from Russia, I bow low. John is in my heart forever.
Without any lyrics just his sax you can hear the expression of grief he plays to pay tribute to the alabama church bombing. Coltrane will always live on as one of the greatest musician to ever live on this planet.
Absolutely Bill. !!!
尊敬尊重这个伟大的人物
Ce titre, je le considère comme un des plus aboutis de la discographie de ce géant jamais égalé... Coltrane apporte une profondeur presque mystique à la musique et transporte tout mélomane qui se respecte dans un univers d'une richesse incomparable, sa musique continue à me hanter littéralement, et ce morceau me suivra jusqu'à ma mort !
This is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard.
Yes.
I'm still looking for something better than Equinox. Anyone that can lead me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it
@@friars394 dear, even if is a matter of taste, please try Coltrane's Olè with Coltrane, Tyner, Dolphy, Hubbard and Garrison. 18 minutes of paradise.
@@TheBaghino i'll check it out, i appreciate it!
You should try some Mozart.....
the politics surrounding music, can NEVER be irrelevant, That's WHY the man wrote the gorgeous work of art, an emotional response to a real world horrifying act. Love
Garbage music attached to politics is still garbage tho
MISTRY I mean it’s a song inspired by pure emotion caused by a real life event. Not sure how that could possibly considered garbage
But yeah if they sucked at music then a “political” song would be garbage but they don’t and it isn’t haha
MISTRY everything is inherently attached to politics. What you chose to eat for breakfast this morning is inherently attached to politics. You’re just pretending you live in a vacuum.
the issue comes when people try to reach and infuse things with politics in an un-authentic and obtuse way. that is most certainly not the case here.
this song says everything without saying a word
Billy Grady isn’t it crazy?
This has to be one of my favorite John Coltrane songs. I'm playing this for our Civil Rights Museum on my Alto Saxophone. Those four little girls deserved a better life than what they got. This world needs to change and it needs to change to something better.
Still strong after all these years! Coltrane in his solitude.
This should have a BILLION views this the realest music i ever herd with out words i can really feel the soul.
The set was powerful intense yet held back. Some of the heaviest hitters in jazz at the time. You can feel the rain in McCoys piano. Alvin's drums are powerful and takes the forefront by default. I captured his last performance here in DC before he died. It was a blessing and honor to see he play. At 80 something he was still the Jazz Machine brother.
Jujag Themag “you can feel the rain” how do you even come up with something like that? This is the first time I read that and I actually feel it lol
You described it perfectly. ❤️ He was brilliant.
I agree but they are the heaviest of all time.
If the Civil Rights preachers were suddenly made mute, this alone would have resounded a thousand times fold.
Truly haunting and at the same time irrefutably beautiful. I can’t help but sob everytime I hear this timeless masterpiece of a song. So full of emotion without saying a single word. Have faith brothers, we’ll fight for a better future for the human race. ✊🏽
Only music can reach this level of greatness.
Anyone here after Grand Army?
I’m so excited for that show to blow up like it deserves to
they put me on, coltrane a genius
Such a great show. It is so relatable.
What's Grand Army?
@@kenyantimmons4798 it’s a new show on netflix
I’m Cuban..!! And listenig this masterpiece according to the situation in my Homeland ..!! I’m deeply touched🙏🏾🇨🇺..!!
Jones, Garrison, and Tyner. My favorite Coltrane lineup. These guys worked together so well. They were in perfect sync with each other.
Right,bat what about Eric Dolphy ? Stockholm concert "My favourit thing".Supreme !
Yeah the Classic Quartet
Definitely the best line-up! Incredible dynamics and intuition! The best of their time!
Your thoughts mirror mines exactly. It don't get any rawer than these four brothers together creating masterpieces...
Oh yea. In love Coltrane and then after he died McCoy Tyner went out and created a storm of passionate, wonderful music.
One of the greatest numbers in not only Jazz but in any kind of music --..
IN 1963......FOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN LITTLE GIRLS LOST THEIR LIVES
AFTER A BOMB RIPPED THROUGH THE 16th STREET BAPTIST CHURCH IN
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA BY a RACISTS ORGANIZED
In Alabama John Coltrane cries through his saxophone
Reaching for something while standing alone.
It looks like his standing alone.but there's a band supporting him.The drum's are definitely the star in this song.
Yes....on spot comment!
What a beautiful way of putting it.
was that your phrasing or are you quoting someone? I would like to use it on my Beat/Jazz page.
Sean Doyle wow, reaching for white, how sad, I once knew a man and sax player named Bubba Brooks, look him up, he made beautiful music, he only reached to be the best
......Elvin Jones made his drums cry at the end of this song .... unbelievably great drumming...and God playing tenor sax channelled thru Trane..
The story of jayson in Grand Army is super moving. This song is brilliant within itself and for the show.
A gripping, spiritual and beautiful tribute to an incredibly evil and tragic event. John Coltrane used music to liberate and elevate the soul of all people of good will and moral consciousness. I am a son of the south and grew up in Mississippi only a few hours from Birmingham and even closer to the tragedy that occurred in Philadelphia Mississippi. We must never forget. With love and honor!
With this music Coltrane touch the paradise.
No words for discribe this tune.
Absolutely beautiful and heart wrenching. I get chills every time I hear it.
A 62 anni, nel 2018 mi ha fatto piangere.
Credo che ci sia tanto bisogno di chi sia capace di toccare i cuori e le menti.
Grazie.
What a musical legend, you just have to give yourself up to his genius.
we need musicians and artists to express the deep truth as john coltrane did, still necessary today as ever. all good things to you john, you gave the world so much.
John Coltrane has been with me for 45 years and has healed so many wounds during that time....
the only way I can fathom disliking this particular song is that it has to be written
John Coltranes father and grandfather would no doubt be incredibly proud of him
incredibly is an understatement
rip little souls xoxoxoxoxo
Der größte Jazz-Musiker aller Zeiten. Habe ihn in Berlin life gehört und gesehen
he did not play music, he touched life...MASTERPIECE ALABAMA
John Coltrane is by far the best tenor saxaphone player that i have ever listen to.Barnone!!
Pernell Henson Greatest all around musician of all time! Saw him with this group at Birdland - Awesome
Still bring tears to my eyes after all these years
I recently learned that Coltrane based this on some of the phrasing in the speech MLK gave in response to the killings in Birmingham.
Now THAT"S cool, if so... can you give us a source for this information?
So in PBS' Chasing Trane documentary (now on Netflix) there's a section on the Birmingham tragedy at around 52:00. It's related that Trane, "...told McCoy Tyner that he developed the melody for Alabama out of the speech that MLK gave...". Incidentally, the documentary's commentary says Trane wrote Alabama some months after the bombing. In fact he performed it in New York less than a month after the event. That track is on Spotify as part of the Coltrane At Work album. Any further info on this extraordinary piece would be most appreciated.
holy s@#t that's cool
That is correct. McCoy Tyner told me that Coltrane based Alabama on the rhythm of Reverend King's speech given in memory of the girls. If you play the speech and the composition side by side you will hear it.
This is a song I love listen to . I reflect on back then and now, today with the pervasive racism and bigotry in the world. This song is like a eulogy it helps me feel better and wanting to help end this madness. Kudos to Mr Coltrane and company for this poignant and penetrating song. PEACE AND BLESSINGS.
The history behind the music makes the all song sound more deep and magnificent..... Amazing job.... Peace in the world
Greatest Jazz composer arranger and musician of all time!
no,the greatest jazz composer and jazz musician off all times was Miles Davis.Coltrane is very good.alabama is one of the good ones in jazz
Ellington greatest conposer. Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker greatest players. Miles greatest small group leader and innovator. Monk greatest original imo and 2nd greatest composer. Mingus top 5 bass player and 3rd greatest composer. This group here is the greatest jazz quartet! See I’ve listened to the whole of jazz history and feel like I have an informed opinion on these matters! Peace. Could go and on breaking down the various categories but this will do for now!
Thank you for posting! We honor our father, he was an amazing person.! Long live King Elvin!
Thank you John Coltrane, thank you so much for your wonderful music. Love from Italy!
The ending had me emotional... I've lived the majority of my life in Tuscaloosa AL. It's a college town about thirty minutes or so from 16th Street, Birmingham. I've been to the Church many times. The feeling I get when I'm near it is unexplainable. It's just so surreal to know that something so senseless and tragic happened so close to home.
I first heard this song in the documentary "Eyes on the Prize". It was playing during the scenes of the burial of Malcolm X. It was so appropriate and moving that I had to search for it. I'm glad I found it.
Rip to the Alabama girls who lost they lives this song was a dedication to them Alabama church bomb
More than a prayer, a mourning or an homage, the art of sublimation by beauty and emotion
I will never forget the afternoon when my mother and I were listening to Coltrane, and this incredible piece started. She let out a gasp and grabbed my arm, wouldn't let go, so I took her in my arms and just held her. After it was finished she recovered herself and told me that she had flashed back to a childhood memory---growing up in what is now Ukraine, and a Friday night in the synagogue where the cantor was singing a horror story about how the ancient Hebrews were struggling thousands of years ago. I told her that Coltrane was talking to us through the saxophone---to her, to me, and to all the others who were struggling in very much the same way. The first notes of the opening recitative had brought it all back to her, and we both understood---and remembered, as we were doing now, centuries later.
John coltrane and band spoke volumes through the instrumentation, you felt the tears pain and anger all in one context. Strong black and powerful
It feels like church.
John Coltrane
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - double bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Sad to say it’s even more relevant now than ever... got to have hope things will change!
This is insanely dark and intense and just such an awesome piece of jazz music. Never heard any jazz piece quite like this before.
Maybe the most emotionally powerful music I've ever heard.
majorbacon1 wow bro. That's saying something.
genau , es geht mir auch so
Whenever I am going through turbulent times in my life, this is the first thing I play. This peice gets me over! Give Thanks!
so moving, words not needed,the music is enough...just listen u can all most feel the pain going on n the south at that time....
I always get goosebumps when the first chords come in.
Every. time.
YASS!!! Much gratitude to Katie Cappiello, the creator, writer and executive producer of Grand Army for using this platform as a teachable moment for the millions of people she has/will have reached thru Grand Army plus the other venues where her work is portrayed!!! Grand Army is absolutely PHENOMENAL!!! Looking for Season 2!
Thank you to the creator of grand army
When I heard about the latest US police shootings of African American citizens, I thought about this song.
Sonny Rollins said, "At one time in my life I thought that this world could change and
get more peaceful, with everybody loving each other and all this hope.
But then I learned, and I lived a little longer.I realised that this world will never change. This world is meant to
be a place of war, killing, everything - sickness, illness, death.
That's this world.I'm very fortunate that I was blessed to live my life playing my music."
Antonio Sáenz Peña , thanks for sharing this. Peace...
you better stop listening to jazz if you believe in this all lives matter bullshit. jazz music is protest music and you can fuck right off
adam Yass. Well said.
I think you'd be surprised if you looked up the original context for why this song was composed. Sometimes artists have something specific in mind that they're responding to, which for some people becomes inseparable from the experience of listening to the music.
Ed, the one who is bitching and moaning about snowflakes, got triggered. Bravo Ed.
May God bless all who suffer oppression. Thank you
A treatise to God. Asking why things are
scimsth, thank you for being you...
Elvin Jones (drums) at the end. WOW!
Tears are running through this sad sax notes....🇨🇮!
Have heart it so many times but each time it touches me deeper in the heart. It's beyond words. !!!!!!
Heartbreaking and beautiful...anger and rage subdued by the sadness and frustration..and still a soaring spirit in their artistry....true masters of emotion and expression...
One of the most moving pieces of music every created. Trane was a true genius.
A quarter that operated on a visionary level so intense that most of us could just endeavor to follow along and hope to grasp at least a small percentage of that extraordinary level of creativity. But then along comes a piece like this, which conveys the impact of a truly horrific event in a manner better than any news account could do. Not just Elvin Jones' work at the finale, but the look on Jimmy Garrison's face says it all. Genius of the highest order. The mind most definitely still boggles, more than a half century after the fact.
This legit brings tears to my eyes, the beauty of this piece and recognizing what this song is dedicated to and the history of it.
Yesterday my partner played this song and it was my first time listening this. after first minute we started to cry. That's how deep is this song even if you don't know the backstory about this song you'll cry because you can feel the pain in every note.
@@Eyupxc That’s like saying you’re reading a book without understanding what it’s about. The song specifically was made because of a horrific event that occurred. I encourage you to know why.
@@Locgevity yeah actually i read what happened after i listen this song i cried more when i read about it
The GREATEST Saxophonists of our time and Culture! To be Remembered!
this band keeps getting better and better with each viewing...
Merci beaucoup !!!! C'est immense le Jazz. C'est le mieux & le plus dur à interpréter. Bless you 💝👍
Take a headphones,
Listen this masperpiece,
Open your soul,
Enjoy
For me, one of the most beautiful music i ever hear in my life
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
When I was a little kid growing up in San Francisco, we used to watch Jazz Casual on Sunday afternoons after church. I remember seeing this whole show on Channel 9, one of the 1st PBS stations.... no commercials. Wow. I used to read Ralph's column in the "Pink" Section of the Sunday paper without fail. We listen to this little snap-shot in time with jaded-azzed 2018 ears... we didn't even have stereo records at this time. We are bombarded with insane volume of images and sound in modern life. We didn't always watch the TeeVee, not all cars had radios, there weren't that many stations yet. Any live news was shot on film. You gotta understand what a fantastic thing it was that the series got made in the first place. There wasn't anything remotely this heavy on TeeVee. Find the Big Brother and Janis show! And the Sonny Rollins Jim Hall... I got about ten of the shows on VHS from the local library a couple years ago. Insanely great musicianship. You know, all thee years later this stuff still make the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Bright Moments!
Music is a universal language that will forever unite us towards a better world where we can all live in peace and harmony. Love you all. Peace and Health 🤍✌🏼
This spoke to me in ways I never could’ve imagined. It posed a question I sadly had no answer to. Thank you, John Coltrane.
Such a powerful piece; for me, this quartet moves the soul like no other....and Trane is its heart....
On the afternoon of November 18, 1963 John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and recorded the tune Alabama.
Coltrane kept his thoughts and feelings to himself, but it was clear that he was playing a eulogy for the victims of the bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama two months prior. The sorrowful melody captures the sadness that one felt over that tragic event, and the whole human injustice that sparked the civil rights movement. 3:03 [The Music Aficionado]
Powerful...honest, Truth..... sorrow, injustice.... cathartic....dark, genius.... Coltrane was a musical God.
One of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard. The way it builds toward rage but remains - barely - controlled and then eases back to dignity and beauty.
i have shivers when i listen this music. it's a one more beautiful partitions never create. awesome
Had to listen to this after learning of the school shooting that took place today in Texas..school shootings have been happening ever since I was young in the early 2010s and now that I'm a young man it's wild to see that there more frequent now and it's happening in elementary school more often, I'm living in an era where kids that are younger than me are dying just by being at school it's complete madness in America..May God rest all those Children's souls and all the other Children who died by gun violence
No matter what color, religion, ethnic, race, we are musicians!!!
That is absolutely right! I would also like to add: regardless of gender, age and origin. Music is a language that all people in this world can understand, provided they still have feelings and ores to hear.
Coltrane and Muhammed Ali.. 2 of the greatest and positive influences of the 20th century, and beyond.
John Coltrane LIVES!!!!
The best quartet of the story of the jazz thank you sir coltrane in .......
Just got home from seeing a documentary about him. This was prominently mentioned. He was one beautiful, driven, courageous man.
The beauty of this piece does not rest in social justice...........but lies in the sojourn of the soul through sorrow, pain, and forgiveness and hope for the restoration of humanity.....through Trains universal connection a universal truth is presented - that is all men must fall but falling does not mean you can not be restored........live humanity...practice peace.......peace&blessings!
I heard this piece for the first time when I was twelve 45 years ago when I bought a record of jazz selections in a small town in rural Canada. I didn't know what the piece referenced but I could hear the anguish. I've been a Coltrane fan ever since and Alabama has remained my favourite piece of his. It's also so appropriate hear that piece today when the senate election is occurring in Alabama as one of the candidates, Doug Jones, help bring two of those poor girls' killer to justice. The world would be a better place if we listened to more Coltrane.
They play as one, united with a single purpose. Absolute sincerity and deadly serious.
A perfect example of "musicians' ESP"...
i have a top 50 list of greatest things my ears have ever heard (you should make one as well it"s enlightening) and this song is one of them. The beginning of the song always seems to make me cry, the end as well. By the way, that top 50 list can include songs, raindrops, something someone said, etc... God bless you.
Interesting idea but for me some songs have their own certain time and purpose. Great songs and 'regular' ones.
one of the most beautiful pieces ever in music
"A beautiful elegy, screaming with pain, undergirded by love ... a masterful piece." - President Bill Clinton
This is the most moving composition and performance I've ever heard. I'm transported.
Music that goes through your SOUL. We know Mr. Coltrane was well-received by the Ancestors ...
Brilliant! Love Mr. Coltrane and how he makes his horn speak. So far ahead. Love his entire body of work. My single favorite musician...barring none.
He has this... I'm tired of all the bullshit that is happening in the world kind of feeling throught his song. Genius!
Anass Ali
Hauntingly beautiful and profound.
Shit, just now learned of the story behind the song. Makes it so much heavier, fantastic performance.
From wikipedia: "It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls."
The look on Elvin Jones face, you feel their grief.
wow i knew of that bombing i just didn't know that was the message behind the song
Karl Boson indeed ! This song is my Anthem to remember every atrocity perpetrated by mankind.
You should try playing this song while listening to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Alabama speech. Coltrane wrote the melody based off the speech so the pitches all fit together and adds even more emotion to both the song and the speech
Depth. This song raises the hair on my arms literally. Pure genius.
Au risque de paraître insistant... Un alabama très spiritual, un Coltrane toujours merveilleux, un plaisir sans pareil, un bienfait pour l'âme et le corps. Hear my trane comin', I hear freedom comin'...
brings me to tears every time i hear this
There is unjustifiable evil in the world. And it takes an evolved human being like a John Coltrane to lift us from this terribly state of despair by the healing power of his music.
Coltrane captured the searing heart-felt anguish and pain - yet knowing that the injustice will not prevail, will not win! I miss him!
I found John Coltrane through a school project. That kind of music is amazing.✨
The deepest level of rage is expressed not in violence but in tears. This is the product of peaceful angry people.
Heaviest performance I’ve seen . Beautiful
Ravi Coltrane performance of this piece, along with Jack DeJohnette and Matt Garrison is outstanding.
Listening and specially playing this theme is something of another word.
I watched a documentary about the civil rights era and I did not know that Coltrane composed this masterpiece in memory of the turmoil.
the best of the best, 4 superb musicians working as one, his best band