First Meditations

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First Meditations
First Meditations cover
Studio album by John Coltrane
Released 1977
Recorded September 2 and September 22, 1965
Genre Jazz
Label Impulse! Records
Producer Bob Thiele

First Meditations (for quartet) is a 1965 album by John Coltrane. It is a quartet version of a suite Coltrane would record as Meditations two months later with the additions of Pharoah Sanders as a second tenor and Rashied Ali on drums.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Love" – 8:04
  2. "Compassion" – 9:30
  3. "Joy" – 8:49
  4. "Consequences" – 7:21
  5. "Serenity" – 6:10
  6. "Joy" – 12:14

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