Meditations (John Coltrane album)
| Meditations | ||||
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| Released | September 1966[1] | |||
| Recorded | November 23, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, hard bop, modal jazz | |||
| Length | 40:31 | |||
| Label | Impulse! A-9110 | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| 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
- ^ Billboard Aug 27, 1966
- ^ 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.
