McCoy Tyner - Horizon
ARTIST.....: McCoy Tyner
TITLE......: Horizon
LABEL......: Milestone
URL........: http://www.mccoytyner.com
RIP DATE...: Nov-03-2007
STORE DATE.: Sep-11-2007
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 73,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - horizon 12:01
02 - woman of tomorrow 07:42
03 - motherland 07:18
04 - one for honor 04:29
05 - just feelin' 07:45
06 - horizon (alternate) 11:47
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51:02 min
Release Notes:
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
incindiary 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 Guliherme 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 sing-song 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.
http://www.amazon.com/Horizon-McCoy-Tyner/dp/B000UDQR4A/