condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.

"Alabama" is here - John Coltrane's elegy for the four girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing, its melody reportedly shaped on the cadences of Dr. King's eulogy. Four of the most profound minutes in American music, full stop, and reason enough for this record's place in history. But the live material burns too: "Afro Blue" with Elvin Jones in complete eruption and McCoy Tyner hammering the modal engine, the quartet of 1963 at cruising altitude in front of a Birdland crowd. Sorrow and fire, side by side on one LP, each making the other more powerful. Japanese pressing, clean and dynamic.