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Meditations (John Coltrane album)

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Released
  
September 1966

Artist
  
John Coltrane

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Length
  
40:31

Release date
  
September 1966

Producer
  
Bob Thiele

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Recorded
  
November 23, 1965 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Meditations (1966)
  
Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1967)

Genres
  
Jazz, Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz

Similar
  
John Coltrane albums, Jazz albums

John coltrane meditations 1966 full album


Meditations is a 1966 album by John Coltrane. The album was considered the "spiritual follow-up to A Love Supreme." It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is avant-garde, featuring extensive passages in free rhythm and extended saxophone techniques such as honked and overblown notes, as well as multiphonics. This would be the last Coltrane recording with long-time partners drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner.

Contents

Alternative versions of tracks 2–5, later issued as First Meditations (for quartet), not issued until 12 years later in 1977, had been recorded in September 1965 by the same musicians minus Rashied Ali and Sanders, and were more restrained, containing fewer overblown notes.

Track listing

All songs written by John Coltrane.

Personnel

  • John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, band leader
  • Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone
  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Jimmy Garrison – double bass
  • Elvin Jones – drums
  • Rashied Ali – drums
  • Songs

    1The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost12:52
    2Compassion6:51
    3Love8:10

    References

    Meditations (John Coltrane album) Wikipedia