{"id":8107,"date":"2017-01-16T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:46:01","slug":"monday-recommendation-john-coltrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/01\/monday-recommendation-john-coltrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: John Coltrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Coltrane<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jRDc3Z\"target=\"_blank\">Live At Birdland<\/a> (Impulse)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Coltrane-Birdland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Coltrane-Birdland.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Coltrane-Birdland-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Coltrane-Birdland-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>On this observance of Martin Luther King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday, we recommend an album that John Coltrane made at the height of the 1960s civil rights movement in the southern United States. He wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alabama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d following the bombing of Birmingham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 16th Street Baptist Church in September, 1963. Four young girls died in the attack by white racists. Dr. King called it, &#8220;one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alabama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the emotional centerpiece of a major album by Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nonpareil quartet with McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; and Elvin Jones, drums. <em>Live At Birdland<\/em> also contains superior versions of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Afro-Blue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Want To Talk About You,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Promise,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your Lady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vilia.&#8221; Coltrane recorded it during an engagement at the celebrated New York City jazz club Birdland. It is one of the key achievements of his career.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Coltrane, Live At Birdland (Impulse) On this observance of Martin Luther King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday, we recommend an album that John Coltrane made at the height of the 1960s civil rights movement in the southern United States. He wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alabama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d following the bombing of Birmingham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 16th Street Baptist Church in September, 1963. Four young girls died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}