Home / Music / John Coltrane's 'Meditations' was released on Impulse! Records in 1966Music linernotes album music john-coltraneJohn Coltrane's 'Meditations' was released on Impulse! Records in 1966Meditations was released in 1966 on Impulse! Records. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesCrescent is Coltrane at his most melodic — a calm before the free-jazz stormNaima was recorded with Miles Davis's rhythm section, not Coltrane's usual bandColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsExploreBeethoven's Ninth manuscript was the first score on UNESCO's registerMark Sandman played a custom two-string slide bass with MorphineThe Pyramids' King of Kings reaches beyond jazz with Ugandan harp and balafonRoger Waters' unreleased track 'Incarceration of a Flower Child' appears on Vagabond WaysTom Waits loaded Swordfishtrombones with banjo, marimba, calliope, and harmoniumPrevious John Coltrane's quartet expanded to a sextet for MeditationsNext John Coltrane's 'Kulu Sé Mama' arrived on Impulse! Records in 1965