Crescent (John Coltrane album)

Crescent
A slanted photograph of Coltrane playing saxophone in a blue suit facing the left. The top left corner of the cover features the title of the album in red script with by the words "John Coltrane Quartet" in yellow beneath it and "Featuring McCoy Tyner/Jimmy Garrison/Elvin Jones" underneath that in blue.
Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedJuly 1964[1]
RecordedApril 27 and June 1, 1964
StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
GenreAvant-garde jazz, post-bop, modal jazz
Length40:10
LabelImpulse! A-66
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
Coltrane's Sound
(1964) 		Crescent
(1964) 		A Love Supreme
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment Weekly(positive)[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]
The Village Voice(positive)[5]

Crescent is a studio album by the jazz musician and composer John Coltrane. It was released in July 1964 through the label Impulse!. Alongside Coltrane on tenor saxophone, the album features McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (double bass) and Elvin Jones (drums) playing original Coltrane compositions.

Coltrane does not solo at all on side two of the original LP; the ballad "Lonnie's Lament" instead features a long bass solo by Garrison. The album's closing track is an improvisational feature for Jones (with sparse melodic accompaniment from Coltrane's tenor sax and Garrison's bass at the song's beginning and end): Coltrane continued to explore drum/saxophone duets in live performances with this group and on subsequent recordings such as the posthumously released Interstellar Space (with Rashied Ali).

  1. ^ "New Album Releases". Billboard. Vol. 76, no. 28. 1964-07-11. p. 37. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ Michael G. Nastos. "Crescent Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  3. ^ Tony Scherman (December 26, 1998). "John Coltrane Quartet The Classic Quartet-Complete Impulse Studio Recordings". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Frances Davis (May 30, 2006). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  6. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.