First Meditations (for quartet)

First Meditations (for quartet)
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1977
RecordedSeptember 2, 1965
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreAvant-garde jazz, Free jazz, Modal jazz
Length40:00 original LP
52:16 CD reissue
LabelImpulse!
AS-9332
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2
(1974)
''First Meditations (for quartet)''
(1977)

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.