John Coltrane - Tenor Sax McCoy Tyner - Piano Elvin Jones - Drums Rashied Ali - Drums Pharoah Sanders - Tenor Sax Jimmy Garrison - (Double) Bass. Engineer - Rudy Van Gelder Produced by Bob Thiele. Cover Design - Robert Flynn/Viceroy Cover And Liner Photos - Charles Shabacon Liner Design - Joe Lebow Liner Notes - Nat Hentoff.

The album was considered the "spiritual follow-up to A Love Supreme. It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is avant-garde, featuring extensive passages in free rhythm and extended saxophone techniques such as honked and overblown notes, as well as multiphonics.

The year 1965 was a turning point in the life of John Coltrane. It was at this point that he crossed the line into the free jazz arena that he had been approaching since the early '60s. Coltrane's regular quartet - McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), and Elvin Jones (drums) - is expanded here with second drummer Rashied Ali (who assumed Jones' spot after this album) and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.

Absolute hokum from start to finish. Coltrane states that he believes in all religions and furthermore declares there "certainly is meaning to life" unfortunetly no coherent, understandable meaning is communicated by his music at this stage.

We all know John Coltrane, whether it be through Miles Davis' quintet and the Kind of Blue album, or his own legendary career as a solo jazz artist. The addition of tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders only furthered the ecstasy. Returning to the lineup again is Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, along with Jimmy Garrison on bass and Rashied Ali on drums. All of these musicians fulfilled their purpose, contributing to the seemingly amorphous nature of Coltrane's later period music.

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension

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This album has an average beat per minute of 129 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 93/168 BPM).

Cover Art. Tracklist. 12" Vinyl 1. 1. The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. length: 12:50 recording engineer: Rudy van Gelder bass: Jimmy Garrison percussion: Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane tenor saxophone: John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders piano: McCoy Tyner membranophone: Rashied Ali and Elvin Jones.