First Meditations (For Quartet)

First Meditations (For Quartet) is an album by American saxophonist John Coltrane, released in 1977. It features extended modal and free-jazz improvisations led by Coltrane's intense tenor with a quartet rhythm section that shifts between steady pulse and freer time, and it sits between his mid-1960s modal recordings and the later, more experimental ensembles he led.