Black Pearls is a studio album by American jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1964 on Prestige Records.

[1][2][3] On that Friday session, "the songs weren't long enough for a whole album", recalled producer Bob Weinstock in 2001, "so I said 'Let's do a slow blues to finish it out'."

[4] The title track is a sustained exhibition of Coltrane's sheets of sound technique during his solo.

In a review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer stated that the album "captures Coltrane at the height of perfecting the intense volley that would garner the name 'sheets of sound'," but noted that it "seems a bit ambiguous when placed in a more historical context.

"[6] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated that, along with Om, the album is "the drabbest session in the whole Coltrane canon.