Description

Crescent is a 1964 studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released by Impulse! as A-66. 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).

Release Info

Artist: The John Coltrane Quartet
Label: Impulse!
Format: LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Country: US
Label: Impulse!
Released: 2022-01-14
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Avant-garde Jazz, Modal

Tracklist

A1 Crescent
A2 Wise One
A3 Bessie's Blues
B1 Lonnie's Lament
B2 The Drum Thing