First Meditations (for quartet)
| First Meditations (for quartet) | ||||
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| Released | December 1977 | |||
| Recorded | September 2, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz, Free jazz, Modal jazz | |||
| Length | 40:00 original LP 52:16 CD reissue | |||
| Label | Impulse! AS-9332 | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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First Meditations (for quartet) is an album by John Coltrane recorded on September 2, 1965, and posthumously released in 1977. It is a quartet version of a suite Coltrane would record as Meditations two months later with an expanded group. Along with Sun Ship, recorded a week earlier, First Meditations represents the final recordings of Coltrane's classic quartet featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones.