John Coltrane - Crescent

John Coltrane — Crescent on SHM-SACD

1964 release pairs Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones

Japanese pressing features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (single layer). Cardboard sleeve packaging. Universal. 2025.

Crescent finds the classic John Coltrane quartet in prime form in 1964. With this album, sax master Coltrane firmly establishes himself as a most formative composer. Coltrane's genius literally rushed forth with his playing of five new compositions.

During 1964 John Coltrane spent the least amount of time in the recording studio of his entire solo career. It wasn't until April 27 that ‘Trane, along with Tyner, Garrison and Jones went to the familiar surroundings of Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio to begin work on the album that came to be called, Crescent.

They recorded all the tracks that appear on Crescent, along with "Songs Of Praise," but not the final versions of the album's five tracks. From that first day's recording the ones that make the final cut are, "Lonnie's Lament," "The Drum Thing" and "Wise One."

Garrison's widow recalled that this album along with A Love Supreme, which was released a year later in 1965, were the two that her husband listened to the most.

Features:
• Super High Material Super Audio CD
• SHM-SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• Single-Layer Stereo SHM-SACD, to secure enough reflectance and not to compress DSD file.
• Label of the disc is printed with a special green ink called 'Onsho Shiyou,' which minimizes diffuse reflection.
• Carefully selected master audio is used, from existing DSD files to newly converted from analog tapes.
• This Single-Layer SHM-SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player!
• Japanese pressing

 

 

 

1. Crescent

2. Wise One

3. Bessie's Blues

4. Ronnie's Lament

5. The Drum Thing

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