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)…read more.
Album Data
Released: July 1964
Recorded: April 27th & June 1st, 1964
Record Label: Impulse! Records
Location Recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Producer: Bob Thiele
Album Length: 40 min / 10 sec
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