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"Alabama"

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 African-American girls.[1][2][3]


Recorded sixty-four days after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and four days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

re: Alabama (John Coltrane song)

Two were convicted of possession of dynamite and, on October 9, 1963, received a small fine ($100) and a 180-day jail sentence for possessing the dynamite. The jail sentences were suspended.

  1. Robert Edward Chambliss (1904–1985) (reported as 59)
  2. John Wesley Hall (1927–1977) (35)

Convicted October 8, 1963, possession of dynamite, receiving a small fine ($100) and a six-month sentence for possessing the dynamite.

  1. Charles Arnie Cagle (22), a resident of nearby Gardendale (case that identifies Cagle). His father was the Rev. A. M. Cagle.

Others??

  1. Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. (1938–2020)
  2. Herman Frank Cash (1918–1994)
  3. Bobby Frank Cherry (1930–2004)

Were, on October 9, 1963, found not guilty and received a small fine and a six-month sentence, the maximum for illegal possession of dynamite.

At that time, Birmingham had experienced 42 bombings since World War II, all unsolved.[4]

Hall, Cagle, and Chambliss were members of the "Cahaba Bridge Boys" (aka "Cahaba River Boys" aka "Cahaba Boys") (a name derived from the Cahaba River)


Reviews

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Jazz critic Francis Davis can't substantiate the claim that "Alabama" was a memorial to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.[5]

Selected sessionography

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Recording date Artists Takes Notes
November 18, 1963
(afternoon)
John Coltrane (soprano sax, tenor sax); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Elvin Jones (drums)
"Alabama"
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    Matrix / Label
  1. 90018-1 (unissued)
  2. 90018-2 (unissued)
  3. 90018-3 (unissued)
  4. 90018-4 Impulse! (2:42) A-50
  5. 90018-5 Impulse! (2:23) A-50; (E)IMPD901
  6. takes 4 & 5 Impulse! (5:05) A-50; AS9200-2; GRP GRBD9874 [CD]

   Notes on session releases

      "Alabama" take 5 (2:22)
      1. The Gentle Side Of John Coltrane
        1. Impulse! IMPD-901 (released as 2 LPs 1975)
        2. Impulse! ASH-9306-2 (released as 2 LPs 1975)
        3. Impulse! GRD-107; GRP GRD-107 (released 1991 as a CD)
      "Alabama" takes 4 & 5 (5:08)
        1. Impulse! A-50 (released as an LP January 1964)
        2. Impulse! IMPD-198 (released as a CD 1996)
      1. The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years (released as an LP 1970)
        1. Impulse! AS-9200-2
        2. ABC AS-9200-2
      2. Afro-Blue (released as an LP April 1971)
        1. Probe SBP-1025
        2. ABC ABCL-5012
      3. A John Coltrane Retrospective - The Impulse! Years (released as 3 CDs 1992)
        1. GRP GRD-3-119
        2. Impulse! GRD-3-119
      4. Impulse! IMPD8-280 (8 CDs): Coltrane – The Classic Quartet - Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (released November 3, 1998)
      5. Impulse! 314 549 913-2: The Very Best of John Coltrane (released as a CD 2001)
      6. Impulse! B0010591-02 (5 CDs): John Coltrane – The Impulse! Albums: Volume Two (released 2008)
      7. John Coltrane – 1963: New Directions (released as 3 CDs December 12, 2018)
        1. Impulse! 0602577020186
        2. UMe 0602577020186
        3. Verve 0602577020186
        4. Verve UCCI-9312/4
        5. Impulse! UCCI-9312/4
        6. UMe UCCI-9312/4

Filmography

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  1. Quest WPCP-5094
  2. Qwest Records 1-45130
  3. Reprise Records 1-45130
  4. BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. D 100372

Berlin

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Fifth day of the Berlin Jazz Festival, November 5, 2016 – a rainy Saturday night, four days before the world woke to learn that Trump had been elected president –


  • Williams, Richard (November 7, 2016). "Coltrane's 'Alabama' in the Time of Trump". thebluemoment.com (essay). A blog about music by Richard Williams. Retrieved April 30, 2021.

DeJohnette's sit-in with Trane

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About sixty-two years ago – 1962 or 1963 – DeJohnette, at age 19, while still in high school, sat-in with John Coltrane's quartet at the start of the last set, when Elvin Jones was late returning. DeJohnette had been in the audience at a small Chicago jazz club, McKie Fitzhugh's Disc Jockey Show Lounge, operated by Fitzhugh ( Merrill McKie Fitzhugh; 1916–1970). The club was at 6325 South Cottage Grove Avenue, at East 63rd Street, on the first floor of the Strand Hotel, next to the Tivoli Theatre (6323 South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago's South Side near the El's Cottage Grove station. DeJohnette recalled playing "I Want to Talk About You" (by Billy Eckstine), "Mr. PC" (by Coltrane), and perhaps one or two other tunes. He said that the quartet was about to play "My Favorite Things" when Jones arrived and thanked him for filling in.

About three years later, DeJohnette performed on a gig – from March 2, 1966, through March 6 – in Chicago with John Coltrane at the Plugged Nickel – a small nightclub operated by Michael L. Pierpaoli (b. 1931) in Old Town, Near North Side at 1321 North Wells Street (operated from 1962 through the early 1970s). The band – which included two saxophones and two drummers – included Alice Coltrane (piano), Rashied Ali (drums), Pharoah Sanders (saxophone), and Jimmy Garrison (bass) – two drummers and two saxophonists. And, on one night, Roscoe Mitchell showed-up and sat in.



  • Next to the Tivoli Theatre at 6323 South Cottage Grove Avenue, which stood just south of the southeast corner of East 63rd Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.
  • 1 block from the Grand Ballroom (formerly the Frank Loeffler Building) 6351 S. Cottage Grove, at East 64th Street
(opened 1956; closed in the 1960s):

McKee suggested that DeJohnette sit in and Trane didn't question it. He played 2 or 3 tunes, DeJohnette recalled, "I Want to Talk About You" (composed by Billy Eckstine), "Mr. PC" (by Coltrane), and a couple other tunes. We were about to play "My Favorite Things" when Elvin came in and thanked me for filling in for him.

Later on, on a gig from March 2, 1966, through March 6, I had the opportunity to go back to Chicago with John Coltrane at the Plugged Nickel – a small nightclub operated by Michael L. Pierpaoli (b. 1931) in Old Town, Near North Side at 1321 North Wells Street (operated from 1962 through the early 1970s) – when he had the new band with Alice Coltrane and Rashied Ali and Pharoah Sanders and Jimmy Garrison. That was event more phenomenal, because we had two drummers, two saxophone players. I remember one night, Roscoe Mitchell came and sat in. So musically, mentally, and spiritually, it was one of the most challenging gigs I ever did.

Trane at McKie's

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  • 1962: March 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
  • 1962: August 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
  • 1962: December 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
  • 1963: January 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (December 19 – January 6: 3 weeks)
  • 1963: May 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  • 1964: February 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
  • July 15, 26, 1964
  • July 26, 1964 thru


Roy Wood

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1937, the year Morehouse College accepted women, Wood graduated.

Marsha Washington George's relatives

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References

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Clark James Simmons, survivor of the USS
  1. Martinez, Daniel (interviewer); transcribed by Cara Kimura, October 17, 1999 (December 7, 1998). "Oral History Interview #267 – Clark James Simmons (1921–2017)" (PDF). "USS Utah, Survivor" (PDF) (oral history). USS Arizona Memorial National Park Service Oral History Collection. Honolulu. (81 pages). Retrieved May 6, 2021 (Daniel Alan Martinez, born 1949, since 1989 – and as of May 2021 – has been Chief Historian at the USS Arizona Memorial of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument) {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. "Oral History Interview #392, Reuben John Eichman (1919–2004), USS Utah, Survivor," December 5, 2001
Other oral histories
  1. "Vaessen, John B[arth] (Jack) (1916–2018) — Pearl Harbor Survivor," June 1, 1987 U.S. Naval Institute.
  2. USS Utah Survivor Eye Witness Account – Charles R[ay] Christensen SEA 2/c [1920–1996]," September 9, 1989, Utah State Historical Society, Oral History Project.
  3. "Pharmacist's Mate Second Class Lee Soucy [ Leonide Benoit Soucy; 1919–2010] – Oral History of The Pearl Harbor Attack," – published September 21, 2015, Naval History and Heritage Command
  4. "Interview With Mr. Lee Soucy," December 7, 2004, National Museum of the Pacific War

Bibliography

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Annotations

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Notes

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  1. ^ Bailey, August 10, 2005.
  2. ^ Muhammad, June 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Cole, John Coltrane, 1976, p. 150.
  4. ^ St. Louis Globe-Democrat, October 10, 1963.
  5. ^ Davis, September 23, 2001.

References

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