Performer: Coltrane
Genre: Jazz
Album: Live At Birdland
Released: 1996
Style: Modal
MP3 version ZIP size: 1192 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1124 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1309 mb
Rating: 4.8
Votes: 224
Other Formats: MIDI FLAC ASF MP3 AUD VQF DMF

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Afro Blue Written-By – Mongo Santamaria	10:52
2	I Want To Talk About You Written-By – Billy Eckstine	8:11
3	The Promise	8:06
4	Alabama	5:08
5	Your Lady	6:39
Bonus Track
6	Vilia Arranged By – John ColtraneComposed By – Franz Lehar*	4:36

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Birdland
• Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Mastered At – MCA Studios
• Remastered At – MCA Music Media Studios
• Pressed By – Sonopress – R-4506
• Distributed By – BMG
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – GRP Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – GRP Records, Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction – Hollis King
• Bass – Jimmy Garrison
• Design [Graphic] – Alba Acevedo
• Drums – Elvin Jones
• Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
• Liner Notes – Leroi Jones, Michael Cuscuna
• Mastered By, Remastered By – Erick Labson
• Photography By [Cover Photograph] – Charles Stewart*
• Photography By [Liner Photos] – Charles Stewart*, Joe Alper, Saeeda Coltrane
• Piano – McCoy Tyner
• Producer [Original Sessions] – Bob Thiele
• Producer [Reissue] – Michael Cuscuna
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – John Coltrane
• Written-By – John Coltrane (tracks: 3 to 5)

Notes

℗ & © 1996 GRP Records Inc.
Digitally remastered using 20-Bit Super Mapping.
Comes in a 3-Panel Digipak with 15-Page booklet.

Tracks 1, 2 & 3 recorded live at Birdland, New York on October 8, 1963. Tracks 4 & 5 recorded in the studio on November 18, 1963.

"The bonus track 'Vilia' was the first tune recorded at a March 6, 1963 session that also included the quartet's first attempt at 'Nature Boy' and the five then untitled originals. 'Vilia' was issued on the multi-artist anthology 'The Definite Jazz Scene Volume 3'. No master of the other tunes have survived. [...]." Michael Cuscuna, in liner notes.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 011105119825
• Matrix / Runout: SONOPRESS R-4506-1/ IMP11982 A
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L030
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 00706
• Rights Society: BIEM/GEMA
• Label Code: LC 0236
• Price Code (F:): BM 720

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AS-50	Coltrane*	Live At Birdland ‎(LP, Album)	Impulse!	AS-50	US	1964
AS-50, A / AS-50, AS 50	John Coltrane	Live At Birdland ‎(LP, RE, Gat)	Impulse!, Impulse!, ABC Impulse!	AS-50, A / AS-50, AS 50	France	1976
MCAD-33109	Coltrane*	Live At Birdland ‎(CD, Album, RE)	MCA Records, Impulse!	MCAD-33109	US	1989
A-50	Coltrane*	Live At Birdland ‎(LP, Album, Mono, Gat)	Impulse!, Sparton Impulse! Records	A-50	Canada	1964
A-50, SMAS-90232	Coltrane*	Live At Birdland ‎(LP, Album, Club, Gat)	Impulse!, Impulse!	A-50, SMAS-90232	US	1964