Home / Music / John Coltrane's quartet expanded to a sextet for MeditationsMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneJohn Coltrane's quartet expanded to a sextet for MeditationsPharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone and Rashied Ali on drums joined Coltrane’s classic quartet, making Meditations a sextet recording. 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 balladsExploreChas Chandler produced Are You Experienced after discovering HendrixJerry Wexler pushed Aretha toward hippie anthems for Live at Fillmore WestTom Dowd produced the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore EastScott Litt co-produced Automatic for the People with R.E.M.Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi gave Back to Black its retro soundPrevious John Coltrane's quartet on A Love Supreme was Tyner, Garrison, and Jones.Next John Coltrane's 'Meditations' was released on Impulse! Records in 1966