Meditations (John Coltrane album)

Meditations
Meditations
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released	August 1966
Recorded	November 23, 1965
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Free jazz, avant-garde jazz
Length	40:31
Label	Impulse!; A-9110
Producer	Bob Thiele
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]

Meditations is a 1966 album by John Coltrane. The album was considered the "spiritual follow-up to A Love Supreme."^[6] 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.

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 tracks are written by John Coltrane.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost"	12:51
2.	"Compassion"	6:50
3.	"Love"	8:09
4.	"Consequences"	9:11
5.	"Serenity"	3:28

Personnel[]

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

References[]

^ https://books.google.com/books?id=EREEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA71&dq=billboard+august+20+1966&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnzOj006bvAhWnJDQIHQlECqwQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
^ AllMusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 47. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Kahn, Ashley (2007). The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. pp. 178-179. ISBN 978-0393330717.

[1] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=EREEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA71&dq=billboard+august+20+1966&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnzOj006bvAhWnJDQIHQlECqwQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

[2] AllMusic review

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

[RSJRG-4] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 47. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[5] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[6] Kahn, Ashley (2007). The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. pp. 178-179. ISBN 978-0393330717.

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