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| Horizon - Keepnews Collection |
| McCoy Tyner |
| első megjelenés éve: 1979 |
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| (2007)
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| 3.228 Ft
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| 1. | Horizon
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| 2. | Woman of Tomorrow
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| 3. | Motherland
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| 4. | One for Honor
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| 5. | Just Feelin'
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| 6. | Horizon [Alternate Take][*]
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Jazz / Post-Bop
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Abbey Anna Project Assistant
Al Foster Drums
Charles Fambrough Bass
Chris Clough Project Assistant
George Adams Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Guilherme Franco Percussion, Conga
Joe Ford Sax (Alto), Flute, Sax (Soprano)
Joe Tarantino Remastering
John Blake Violin
Larissa Collins Art Direction
Nick Phillips Project Supervisor
Orrin Keepnews Liner Notes, Annotation, Producer, Reissue Producer
Phil Carroll Cover Design
Rikka Arnold Editorial
Rudy Van Gelder Engineer
Stephen Hart Mixing
Stuart Kremsky Project Assistant
Zev Feldman Project Assistant
McCoy Tyner has fronted many mid-sized ensembles, but this one ranks with the very best he has led. As violinist John Blake jives and jousts with alto and soprano saxophonist Joe Ford and the incendiary tenor saxophonist George Adams, Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career. It all starts with the magnificent opener "Horizon" (this CD also includes a previously unreleased alternate take), which goes though a variety of dynamic rhythm changes, clarion calls, tinkling or rumbling piano set-ups prior to the band bursting loose, Afro-Cuban incursions, concise, inspired solos, and all powered by absolute perfect rhythm navigating from drummer Al Foster aside colorful percussive inserts by Guilherme Franco. It is one of the greatest single compositions of Tyner's career...sheer genius, period. "Just Feelin'" has been a piece that endures, played by Tyner in alternate trio and big-band settings as well. A singsong line courtesy of the vibrant tenor of Adams and Ford's plaintive, angular soprano radiates warmth for Blake's soaring violin to feed off of, as bright as any super nova. Blake's composition "Woman of Tomorrow, " with the violinist, both horn players switching to flute, Tyner and bass anchor Charles Fambrough is a textbook clinic exercise in beauty. "Motherland" chugs along in fierce modal revelry, powered by the rock-solid bass of Fambrough, with Adams getting to the heart of it in his typical fiery fashion and Franco urging him on playing the shekere, while "One for Honor" with just piano-bass-drums is a stone-cold hard bop wonder. The front cover has a silhouette of Tyner's face superimposed as lightning strikes fronting a raging thunderstorm, a great piece of art, as is this extraordinary recording, which cannot come more highly recommended. ~ Michael G. Nastos, 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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