{"product_id":"john-coltrane-meditations-verve-vault-series","title":"John Coltrane - Meditations (Verve Vault Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeditations is John Coltrane at his most searching and spiritually intense, reissued as part of the Verve Vault Series in the year that marks a century since his birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs in 1965 and released on Impulse! in 1966, the album is often heard as the spiritual successor to A Love Supreme. It is also a turning point in his story. This was the last Coltrane recording with his classic quartet of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, expanded here with Pharoah Sanders on a second tenor saxophone and Rashied Ali as a second drummer. Within months, Tyner and Jones had moved on and a freer direction had taken hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music unfolds as a continuous suite, and the track titles trace a spiritual arc. It begins with the explosive The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, where two tenors cry out over a churning, double-drum storm, then moves through Compassion and Love toward the closing Serenity, with long stretches of collective improvisation along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is challenging, ecstatic music that rewards the kind of focused listening a record invites. For anyone who has worn out A Love Supreme and wants to hear where Coltrane went next, it is the natural next step.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67761831149858,"sku":"199957337434","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/John_Coltrane-Meditations_Verve_Vault_Series.jpg?v=1794309816","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/john-coltrane-meditations-verve-vault-series","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}