Meditations (album)

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Meditations
Meditations cover
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released 1965
Recorded November 23, 1965
Genre Jazz
Length 40:31
Label Impulse! Records
Producer Bob Thiele
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars [1]

John Coltrane chronology
Kulu Sé Mama
(1965)
Meditations
(1965)
Live At The Village Vanguard Again!
(1966)

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.

Alternative versions of tracks 2-5 had been recorded in September 1965 by the same musicians minus Sanders and Ali. These recordings were later issued as First Meditations (for quartet) and were more restrained, containing less squealing and overblown notes.

[edit] Track listing

  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

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