Sunday, February 6, 2022

John Coltrane


 




















Artist:  John Coltrane
Birth Name:   John William Coltrane
Born:  September 23, 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA.
Died:  July 17, 1967 (Aged 40),  Huntington, New York, USA.
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone.

John Coltrane was an American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer.  He played in style of Bebop and Hard Bop and helped pioneer the use of the modes in Jazz and was later at the forefront of Free Jazz.  He also appeared as a sideman on many album by other musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.  His best known and best-selling albums Blue Train i 1958 and A Love Supreme in 1964.



















Title:   Crescent (Acoustic Sounds Verve Series) (2021)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz

Label:  Verve Records/Impulse!

Rating:   *****


Format:  LP


Tracks:


Side 1:


 1.  Crescent (8:41)

 2.  Wise One (9:00)

 3.  Bessie's Blues (3:22)


Side 2:


 1.  Lonnie's Lament (11:45)

 2.  The Drum Thing (7:22)


Personnel:


John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone

McCoy Tyner:  Piano

Jimmy Garrison: Double Bass

Elvin Jones:  Drums


Crescent is a 1964 studio album by John Coltrane, originally released on July 1964 by Impulse!, remastered and reissued on December 2, 2021 by Verve Records/Impulse!.  180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.










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