Tracklist
Side A
- The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
- Compassion
Side B
- Love
- Consequences
- Serenity
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John Coltrane: Meditations (Verve Vault Series) 1LP
- Artist:
- John Coltrane
$46.99
Verve, 1966
Meditations, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, captures John Coltrane’s late-period quartet in transition — expanding into new sonic territory while retaining the core intensity of his classic lineup. Recorded on November 23, 1965, at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio with producer Bob Thiele, the session includes both Coltrane’s long-standing quartet and new collaborators who would shape his music’s final phase. The personnel unites pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones with additional voices: tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and drummer Rashied Ali. This expanded ensemble offers a denser, more turbulent soundscape, foreshadowing Coltrane’s move toward freer and more spiritual explorations. Across the suite-like program — including “The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,” “Compassion,” and “Love” — the music flows as a continuous meditation on transcendence and collective expression. Meditations pushes Coltrane’s spiritual jazz into heightened realms of energy and abstraction. It marks one of the final appearances of his “classic quartet” members Tyner and Jones before they departed, leaving Coltrane to pursue new directions with Sanders and Ali. The album remains a powerful document of transformation, intensity, and devotion in Coltrane’s recorded legacy.
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