{"product_id":"meditations_verve_vault_series","title":"Meditations (Verve Vault Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded in late 1965, Meditations finds John Coltrane pushing the spiritual suite form of A Love Supreme into fiercer, more turbulent territory. Pharoah Sanders joins Coltrane on tenor, while McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones create a rhythm section that can feel devotional one moment and volcanic the next. The album’s five-part arc moves from dense, overlapping cries to passages of remarkable calm, with Garrison’s bass providing a steady center amid Jones’s rolling percussion and the two saxophones’ ecstatic exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a key bridge between the tightly focused classic quartet recordings and the freer, large-scale surge of Ascension. It also offers a fascinating contrast with First Meditations, the earlier quartet version of the same suite, which is more spacious and restrained. The Verve Vault Series edition is a welcome way back into one of Coltrane’s most searching records, an album whose intensity can be overwhelming at first but reveals more shape, tenderness, and purpose with every return listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":67617577206074,"sku":"39957","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-10-02_at_3.26.09_PM.jpg?v=1790969374","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/meditations_verve_vault_series","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}