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McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Artist: McCoy Tyner
Title: The Real McCoy
Genre Jazz
Styles Hard Bop, Bop, Modal
Discs 1
Originally released: 1967
Publication: EUA : Blue Note, 1987
ISRC: Blue Note: CDP 7-46512-2
Rudy Van Gelder: Engineer
Nat Hentoff: Liner Notes
Alfred Lion: Producer
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Track Listings
1. Passion Dance
2. Contemplation
3. Four by Five
4. Search for Peace
5. Blues on the Corner
Personell:
McCoy Tyner: Piano, Main Performer
Ron Carter: Bass
Joe Henderson; Sax (Tenor)
Elvin Jones: Drums
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Bio
Born: December 11, 1938
It is not an overstatement to say that modern jazz has been shaped by the music of McCoy Tyner. His blues-based piano style, replete with sophisticated chords and an explosively percussive left hand has transcended conventional styles to become one of the most identifiable sounds in improvised music. His harmonic contributions and dramatic rhythmic devices form the vocabulary of a majority of jazz pianists.
Born in 1938 in Philadelphia, he became a part of the fertile jazz and R&B scene of the early ‘50s. His parents imbued him with a love for music from an early age. His mother encouraged him to explore his musical interests through formal training.
At 17 he began a career-changing relationship with Miles Davis’ sideman saxophonist John Coltrane. Tyner joined Coltrane for the classic album My Favorite Things (1960), and remained at the core of what became one of the most seminal groups in jazz history, The John Coltrane Quartet. The band, which also included drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Jimmy Garrison, had an extraordinary chemistry, fostered in part by Tyner’s almost familial relationship with Coltrane. From 1960 through 1965, Tyner’s name was propelled to international renown, as he developed a new vocabulary that transcended the piano styles of the time, providing a unique harmonic underpinning and rhythmic charge essential to the group's sound. He performed on Coltrane’s classic recordings such as Live at the Village Vanguard, Impressions and Coltrane’s signature suite, A Love Supreme.
In 1965, after over five years with Coltrane's quartet, Tyner left the group to explore his destiny as a composer and bandleader. Among his major projects is a 1967 album entitled The Real McCoy, on which he was joined by saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Ron Carter and fellow Coltrane alumnus Elvin Jones. His 1972 Grammy-award nomination album Sahara, broke new ground by the sounds and rhythms of Africa. Since 1980, he has also arranged his lavishly textured harmonies for a big band that performs and records when possible. In the late 1980s, he mainly focused on his regular piano trio featuring Avery Sharpe on bass and Aarron Scott on drums. As of today, this trio is still in great demand. He returned to Impulse in 1995, with a superb album featuring Michael Brecker. In 1996 he recorded a special album with the music of Burt Bacharach. In 1998 he changed labels again and recorded an interesting latin album and an album featuring Stanley Clarke for TelArc.
Tyner has always expanded his vision of the musical landscape and incorporated new elements, whether from distant continents or diverse musical influences. More recently he has arranged for big bands, employed string arrangements, and even reinterpreted popular music.
Today, Tyner has released nearly 80 albums under his name, earned four Grammys and was awarded Jazz Master from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. He continues to leave his mark on generations of improvisers, and yet remains a disarmingly modest and spiritually directed man.
review
This 1967 quartet recording features two then-young musicians now seen as veterans. While Joe Henderson, on whose debut album Tyner had played back in 1963, was still forging his reputation, the pianist himself was far better known after spending five-and-a-half years with the leading group of the day, the John Coltrane Quartet. For his first outing on the already prestigious Blue Note label, Tyner completed the line-up with his Coltrane colleague Elvin Jones on drums and Miles Davis's bassist Ron Carter. The five Tyner compositions which make up this set are by now standard jazz repertoire and, in most cases, have been re- recorded by Tyner as well as by others. This hardly detracts from the power of the originals, for tunes like "Passion Dance" and "Contemplation" gain from the beneficial tension between the participants and the then-unfamiliar material. By the time of the closing medium-tempo "Blues On The Corner", the tension has evaporated but the urgency is still there and, though the whole performance is more straight-forward and less intense than latter-day Coltrane, the quality of Tyner's music is undiminished by time.
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