First Meditations (for quartet) is an album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965. It is a quartet version of a suite Coltrane would record as Meditations two months later with the additions of Pharoah Sanders as a second tenor saxophone and Rashied Ali on [bad word]  Not released initially until 1977, the album witnesses the final recording of Coltrane's classic quartet featuring bassist Jimmy Garrison, [bad word] Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner; other slightly later records found the group augmented by additional musicians.

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – [bad word] McCoy Tyner – piano