Editing Crescent Records (section)

{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Crescent Records
| image       = 
| founded     = {{start date|1944}}
| founder     =  [[Nesuhi Ertegun]]
| defunct     = {{end date|1946}}
| status      = Defunct
| genre       = Jazz
| country     = U.S.
| location    = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
}}

'''Crescent Records''' was an American [[independent record label]] that produced [[jazz]] recordings from 1944 to 1946. It was founded by [[Nesuhi Ertegun]] to record a band that was assembled to perform on CBS Radio's 1944 variety series ''[[The Orson Welles Almanac]]''. Only one group, [[Kid Ory]]'s Creole Jazz Band, was released on the Crescent label, which was distributed by Hollywood's [[Jazz Man Record Shop]]. Although only eight discs were released, Crescent Records was involved  in the international [[Jazz#Dixieland revival|revival]] of traditional jazz in the 1940s.