JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET Crescent RARE Japan 1965 ORIG Press Free Jazz EX Flip Back

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The JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: “Crescent”

LABEL: IMPULSE/ KING RECORDS

Label Number: SH-3041

- RARE VERY FIRST 1965 High Quality JAPAN ORIGINAL PRESSING

- On the collectible IMPULSE label

- Comes housed in ultra fragile first issue only flip back sleeve

- Excellent Condition all way through

- 1965 Original First press just never surfaces!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent – has a few faint hairlines that do not sound. Especially good condition for a 1965 first pressing.

Fragile Flip Back Jacket: Excellent – no splits or damages, fully readable spine. Very faint left upper corner crease.

Some words on this issue: JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: “Crescent” (Impulse – SH-3041) Rare original Japanese first pressing from 1965 that comes housed in fragile laminated flip back sleeve. “Crescent from the spring of 1964 is an epic album, showing Coltrane’s meditative side that would serve as a perfect prelude to his immortal work “A Love Supreme”. His finest quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones supports the somewhat softer side of Coltrane, and while not completely in ballad style, the focus and accessible tone of this recording work wonders for anyone willing to sit back and let this music enrich and wash over you. While not quite at the "sheets of sound" unfettered music he would make before his passing in 1967, there are hints of this group stretching out in restrained dynamics, playing as lovely a progressive jazz as heard anywhere in any time period. The highlights come at the top with the reverent, ruminating, and free ballad "Crescent," with a patient Coltrane acquiescing to swinging, while the utterly beautiful "Wise One" is accented by the delicate and chime-like musings of Tyner with a deeply hued tenor from Coltrane unrushed even in a slight Latin rhythm. These are the ultimate spiritual songs, and ultimately two of the greatest in Coltrane’s storied career. But "Bessie's Blues" and "Lonnie's Lament" are just as revered in the sense that they are covered by jazz musicians worldwide, the former a hard bop wonder with a classic short repeat chorus, the latter one of the most somber, sad jazz ballad reflections in a world full of injustice and unfairness -- the ultimate eulogy. Garrison and especially Jones are put through their emotional paces, but on the finale "The Drum Thing," the African-like tom-tom sounds extracted by Jones with Coltrane’s sighing tenor, followed by some truly amazing case study-frantic snare drumming, makes it one to be revisited.” (All Music Guide). Damned scarce the very 1st Japanese Coltrane Impulse pressings.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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