Meditations (album)
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| Studio album by John Coltrane | ||||
| Released | September 1966 | |||
| Recorded | November 23, 1965 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, hard bop, modal jazz | |||
| Length | 40:31 | |||
| Language | Instrumental | |||
| Label | Impulse! (A-9110) | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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Meditations is a 1965 album by John Coltrane. It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is fairly 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 had been recorded in September 1965 by the same musicians minus Rashied Ali and Sanders. These recordings were later issued as First Meditations (for quartet) and were more restrained, containing less squealing and fewer overblown notes.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by John Coltrane.
- "The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost" – 12:51
- "Compassion" – 6:50
- "Love" – 8:09
- "Consequences" – 9:11
- "Serenity" – 3:28
[edit] Personnel
- John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, band leader
- Rashied Ali – drums
- Jimmy Garrison – double bass
- Elvin Jones – drums
- Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone
- McCoy Tyner – piano
