"Alabama" is a musical composition by the American jazz artist John Coltrane, first recorded in 1963 by Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones. Coltrane conceived of and performed the composition in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963βan attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African-American girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11) John Coltrane is canonized by the African Orthodox Church
(2020) 48 x 60 x 2 inches mixed-media acrylic collage painting, acrylic, pigmented ink, gold metal leaf, on gold framed and cradled wood panel.