John Coltrane Quartet
Crescent
â##Sandwiched between two of the John Coltrane Quartet's greatest masterpieces Live at Birdland and A Love Supreme Crescent is often forgotten But this album of four ballads and one blues is full of understated beauty 'Crescent' 'The Wise One' and 'Lonnie's Lament' are three of the Coltrane's most beautiful compositions these are some of the first ballads in the later Coltrane style with the saxophone playing the theme in free time over the rumbling rhythm section