Coltrane Live At Birdland
by John Coltrane

Coltrane Live At Birdland by John Coltrane
(Live album)
Year: 1964
Overall rank: 9,026th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 48 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1964 (46th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (645th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,026th)

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John Coltrane bestography

Coltrane Live At Birdland is ranked 20th best out of 90 albums by John Coltrane on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Coltrane is A Love Supreme which is ranked number 76 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,819.

John Coltrane album bestography « Higher ranked (8,149th)
A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle
This album (9,026th)
Coltrane Live At Birdland
Lower ranked (9,580th) »
Sun Ship

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Coltrane Live At Birdland rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,026th | 1960s rank: 645th | 1964 rank: 46th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 48 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.6/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.


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Worth it for Alabama alone.
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Solid live album from Trane, which is not very challenging. Surprised it's not in any charts, but on the other hand, the quality of Trane's records generally very high. So there's many albums in his discography that are better. Still worth a listen for fans.
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