Legacy
An earlier version of "Lonnie's Lament" appears on Afro-Blue Impressions and an almost hour-long version of "Crescent" would later be recorded on Live in Japan. The entire album would be collected on The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings. Coltrane would later perform the song "After the Crescent", which appeared on 1965's To the Beat of a Different Drum.
The title track would later be covered by Alice Coltrane for 2004's Translinear Light and McCoy Tyner on his 1991 album Soliloquy. Tyner recorded it again live for the albums McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard and Live at Sweet Basil.
Garrison's widow recalled that this album along with A Love Supreme were the two he listened to the most.
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