John Coltrane - Meditations (1966) [Reissue 1987]
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 254 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Impulse!/MCA Records (254 621-2)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 254 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Impulse!/MCA Records (254 621-2)
The year 1965 was a turning point in the life of John Coltrane. It was at this point that he crossed the line into the free jazz arena that he had been approaching since the early '60s. Besides his landmark Ascension, no album better illustrates this than the awe-inspiring Meditations. Coltrane's regular quartet - McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), and Elvin Jones (drums) - is expanded here with second drummer Rashied Ali (who assumed Jones' spot after this album) and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. This conglomeration produces some dense textures, especially in the epic first track "The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." This sonic hurricane is a 13-minute outpouring of spiritual emotion that is at once compelling and exhausting…