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| 1. | Moment's Notice
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| 2. | Passion Dance
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| 3. | Search for Peace
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| 4. | The Promise
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| 5. | Song of the New World
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Recorded: in a performance at a "Live Under the Sky" Festival concert, Jul 28, 1978, Denen Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan
Remastered: 2005, Joe Tarantino, Fantasy Studio, Berkeley
McCoy Tyner - piano
plus, on "Moment's Notice" and "Song of the New World":
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums
McCoy Tyner gave an electrifying concert at the 1978 Live Under the Sky Festival in Tokyo. These recordings, from the same occasion that produced 2004's Counterpoints/Live in Tokyo (Milestone MCD-9339-2), present the virtuoso pianist at a peak of inspiration and a degree of keyboard perfection unusual even for him. Bookended by superb trio performances with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams, the disc finds Tyner spinning out breathtaking unaccompanied solos on three of his most celebrated compositions. They include a definitive version of "Passion Dance" that lasts nearly twelve minutes and fairly explodes with energy, inspiration, and a moving allusion to his association with John Coltrane and "A Love Supreme". When Tyner launches into the familiar introduction of "Song of the New World", the audience explodes, too, in a moment of recognition and appreciation for one of the greatest of jazz pianists.
* Danny Kopelson - Assistant
* Ed Michel - Producer
* Jim Stern - Engineer, Remixing
* Joe Tarantino - Remastering
* Orrin Keepnews - Executive Producer, Supervisor
* Phil Bray - Photo Booklet
* Yoshiyuki Kubo - Assistant Engineer
* Zand Gee - Design, Illustrations
Recorded live in Tokyo, the great pianist McCoy Tyner performs three of his best originals ("Passion Dance," "Search For Peace" and "Song Of The New World") plus two John Coltrane songs ("Moment's Notice" and "The Promise"). He takes three selections unaccompanied while "Moment's Notice" and "Song Of The New World" are with a trio including bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. This Lp (long overdue to be reissued on CD) has plenty of fiery and passionate music. All of Tyner's Milestone records of the 1970's are recommended and this is one of the better ones.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
McCoy Tyner
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 11, 1938 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Early Creative, Modern Big Band, Mainstream Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Modal Music, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Avant-Garde Jazz
It is to McCoy Tyner's great credit that his career after John Coltrane has been far from anti-climatic. Along with Bill Evans, Tyner has been the most influential pianist in jazz of the past 50 years, with his chord voicings being adopted and utilized by virtually every younger pianist. A powerful virtuoso and a true original (compare his playing in the early '60s with anyone else from the time), Tyner (like Thelonious Monk) has not altered his style all that much from his early days but he has continued to grow and become even stronger.
Tyner grew up in Philadelphia, where Bud Powell and Richie Powell were neighbors. As a teenager he gigged locally and met John Coltrane. He made his recording debut with the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet, but after six months left the group to join Coltrane in what (with bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones) would become the classic quartet. Few other pianists of the period had both the power and the complementary open-minded style to inspire Coltrane, but Tyner was never overshadowed by the innovative saxophonist. During the Coltrane years (1960-1965), the pianist also led his own record dates for Impulse.
After leaving Coltrane, Tyner struggled for a period, working as a sideman (with Ike and Tina Turner, amazingly) and leading his own small groups; his recordings were consistently stimulating even during the lean years. After he signed with Milestone in 1972, Tyner began to finally be recognized as one of the greats, and he has never been short of work since. Although there have been occasional departures (such as a 1978 all-star quartet tour with Sonny Rollins and duo recordings with Stephane Grappelli), Tyner has mostly played with his own groups since the '70s, which have ranged from a quartet with Azar Lawrence and a big band to his trio. In the '80s and '90s, Tyner did the rounds of labels (his old homes Blue Note and Impulse! as well as Verve, Enja, and Milestone) before settling in with Telarc in the late '90s and releasing a fine series of albums including 2000's Jazz Roots: McCoy Tyner Honors Jazz Piano Legends of the 20th Century and 2004's Illuminations. In 2007, Tyner returned with the studio album McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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