Crescent (John Coltrane album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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 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).

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Legacy

An earlier version of "Lonnie's Lament" appears on Afro-Blue Impressions, and an almost hour-long version of "Crescent" was recorded on Live in Japan. The entire album was collected on The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings. Coltrane later recorded the song "After the Crescent", which appeared on 1978's To the Beat of a Different Drum.

The title track was later covered by Alice Coltrane for 2004's Translinear Light and McCoy Tyner on his 1991 album Soliloquy. Tyner recorded it again live for the albums McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard and Live at Sweet Basil. Guitarist Steve Lukather is the soloist on the version recorded for the 2005 tribute album A Guitar Supreme.^[7] The SFJAZZ Collective covered four of the songs on their SFJAZZ Collective 2, with Nicholas Payton and Joshua Redman soloing on the title track.^[8]

Garrison's widow recalled that this album along with A Love Supreme were the two he listened to the most.^[9]

Track listing

All songs composed by John Coltrane and published by Jowcol Music (BMI)

Side one

"Crescent" – 8:41
"Wise One" – 9:00
"Bessie's Blues" – 3:22

Side two

"Lonnie's Lament" – 11:45
"The Drum Thing" – 7:22

Personnel

John Coltrane Quartet

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums

Technical personnel

Compact Disc release

Michael Cuscuna – production and liner notes
Eric Labson – digital remastering
Joe Alper – photography
Chuck Stewart – photography

Charts

Chart performance for *Crescent*
Chart (2022)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[10]	101
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[11]	38

References

Notes

^ "New Album Releases". Billboard. Vol. 76, no. 28. 1964-07-11. p. 37. ISSN 0006-2510.
^ Michael G. Nastos. "Crescent Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
^ 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.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Frances Davis (May 30, 2006). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Milkowski, Bill (November 2005). "Giant Steps Rocks". Jazziz. pp. 32–33.
^ Freeman, Phil (June 2006). "Rev. of SFJAZZ Collective, SF JAZZ Collective 2". Jazziz. pp. 55–56.
^ Kahn (2002), p. 222.
^ "Ultratop.be – John Coltrane Quartet – Crescent" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – John Coltrane Quartet – Crescent" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved February 4, 2022.

Bibliography

Kahn, Ashley (2002). A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (1st ed.). Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-14-200352-7.

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Discography
Prestige albums	Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron) Tenor Conclave Coltrane Interplay Wheelin' & Dealin' John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio Soultrane Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette The Cats (with Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Burrell) Lush Life Settin' the Pace Standard Coltrane Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane Stardust Dakar The Believer Black Pearls Bahia The Last Trane Two Tenors
Blue Note albums	Blue Train Coltrane Time
Atlantic albums	Giant Steps Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson) Coltrane Jazz My Favorite Things Olé Coltrane Coltrane Plays the Blues Coltrane's Sound The Avant-Garde
Impulse! albums	Africa/Brass Coltrane Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Ballads Impressions John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Crescent A Love Supreme The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Ascension Meditations Kulu Sé Mama Expression Om Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane) Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things Transition Sun Ship Infinity Interstellar Space The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 First Meditations Dear Old Stockholm Stellar Regions Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Blue World
With Miles Davis	Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet 'Round About Midnight Cookin' Relaxin' Milestones Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Kind of Blue Jazz Track Workin' Steamin' Someday My Prince Will Come Miles & Monk at Newport Basic Miles At Newport 1958 Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I 1958 Miles Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley
With Thelonious Monk	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious Himself Monk's Music Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Live albums	"Live" at the Village Vanguard Live at Birdland New Thing at Newport Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Live in Seattle Live in Japan Afro Blue Impressions The Paris Concert The European Tour Live Trane: The European Tours Bye Bye Blackbird Newport '63 The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up Offering: Live at Temple University A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Compilations	Alternate Takes The Best of John Coltrane The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings Coltrane for Lovers The Coltrane Legacy The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Prestige Recordings Countdown: The Savoy Sessions Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions Feelin' Good Gold Coast The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings High Step The Major Works of John Coltrane Jupiter Variation Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane The Last Giant: Anthology Living Space To the Beat of a Different Drum Trane's Blues Trane's Modes
Compositions	"26-2" "Alabama" "Central Park West" "Countdown" "Equinox" "Giant Steps" "Impressions" "Lazy Bird" "Moment's Notice" "Mr. P.C." "Naima" "Ogunde"
Documentaries	The Church of Saint Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
Related	List of sessions Coltrane changes Sheets of sound Alice Coltrane (wife) Ravi Coltrane (son) Philadelphia house Dix Hills home 5893 Coltrane asteroid John W. Coltrane Cultural Society Tribute albums Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

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