Tracklist

A1	Love	8:00
A2	Compassion	9:30
B1	Joy	8:53
B2	Consequences	7:15
B3	Serenity	5:12

Companies, etc.

• Made By – Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

Credits

• Art Direction – Frank Mulvey
• Bass – Jimmy Garrison
• Design – Philip Chiang
• Drums – Elvin Jones
• Engineer [Recording] – Rudy Van Gelder
• Illustration – Mamoru Shimokochi
• Piano – McCoy Tyner
• Producer – Bob Thiele, John Coltrane
• Producer [For Release] – Michael Cuscuna
• Tenor Saxophone, Composed By – John Coltrane

Notes

Japanese promotional labels with obi & insert, 見本盤 printed on labels (translation: "Sample Version").

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 2, 1965.

℗ © 1977 ABC Records, Inc.
℗ 1978 Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.
Made in Japan
¥2,500

Credited to John Coltrane on the cover, but John Coltrane Quartet on the label

Include Japanese liner notes.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Other: AI-358-263

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AS-9332	John Coltrane	First Meditations (For Quartet) ‎(LP, Album)	ABC Records, Impulse!	AS-9332	US	1977
29030, AS-9332	John Coltrane	First Meditations (For Quartet) ‎(LP, Album, RE)	MCA Records, ABC Records, Impulse!	29030, AS-9332	US	1980
9027-9332	John Coltrane	First Meditations (For Quartet) ‎(LP, Album)	ABC Impulse!	9027-9332	Canada	1977
YX-8506-AI	John Coltrane	First Meditations (For Quartet) ‎(LP, Album)	ABC Records, Impulse!	YX-8506-AI	Japan	1978
AS-9332	John Coltrane	First Meditations (For Quartet) ‎(LP, Album)	ABC Records, Impulse!	AS-9332	Sweden	1977

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