from 5:30 PM · Kissa Kissa, 667 Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights
featured listen: Live at Birdland
Sixty-three years after Coltrane recorded “Alabama,” Kissa Kissa plays Live at Birdland whole on Wednesday, November 18th, 2026, from 5:30 PM. A free Coltrane 100 night at Kissa Kissa, the Japanese-style jazz vinyl listening bar at 667 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Live at Birdland, start to finish
He cut it nine weeks after the Birmingham church bombing. We play the album whole rather than lifting the track out, because the album is what carries it.
Free and open to the public. No cover, no ticket.
Visiting Kissa Kissa in Crown Heights
Wednesdays are Listening Nights at Kissa Kissa: full album sides, low voices, phones down at the bar. Walk-ins are welcome. Hours and directions are on the visit page, and Listening Nights & Social Nights explains how the week works.
More from Coltrane 100
Earlier in the series: Journey, Deeply (Nov 8). Next: Meditations, sixty-one years on (Nov 23). The full schedule of twenty-one nights is on the Coltrane 100 series page.
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