Saturday, September 02, 2006

John Coltrane's "Alabama" Video

In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a gaggle of malcontents planted 12 sticks of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The dynamite exploded eight hours later killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14, in the process galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement. Two months later, on November 18, 1963, John Coltrane stepped up to the microphone in fabled Englewood, NJ studio of one Rudy Van Gelder and over a McCoy Tyner Tremolo, blew his searing and definitive statement on the subject of the bombing - "Alabama."

1 comment:

H Songhai said...

LoHo,

Thanks for all the great information you provide us with through your Philly Jazz Blog.

Keep up the fantastic work!

H. Songhai
9/4/06