Crescent (John Coltrane album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Crescent

| type = studio

| artist = John Coltrane

| cover = John Coltrane - Crescent.jpg

| alt = 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.

| released = July 1964{{Cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |date=1964-07-11 |page=37 |title=New Album Releases |volume=76 |issue=28 |issn=0006-2510}}

| recorded = April 27 and June 1, 1964

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)

| genre = Avant-garde jazz, post-bop, modal jazz

| length = {{Duration|m=40|s=10}}

| label = Impulse! A-66

| producer = Bob Thiele

| prev_title = Coltrane's Sound

| prev_year = 1964

| next_title = A Love Supreme

| next_year = 1965

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r136911|pure_url=yes}} |title=Crescent Overview |author=Michael G. Nastos |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 18, 2009}}

|rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

|rev2score = (positive){{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,63844,00.html |title=John Coltrane Quartet The Classic Quartet-Complete Impulse Studio Recordings |author=Tony Scherman |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 26, 1998 |access-date=October 18, 2009 |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205041217/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,63844,00.html |url-status=dead }}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Richard|author-link1=Richard Cook (journalist)|last2=Morton|first2=Brian|author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|year=2008|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition=9th|publisher=Penguin|page=289|isbn=978-0-141-03401-0}}

|rev5 = The Village Voice

|rev5score = (positive){{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-05-30/music/the-john-coltrane-guide/ |title=The John Coltrane Guide |author=Frances Davis |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=May 30, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2009 |archive-date=January 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105054920/http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-05-30/music/the-john-coltrane-guide/ |url-status=dead }}

|rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 46

}}

}}

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).