One of the very best out of many stellar releases from this jazz pianist great, Expansions splits the difference between relatively straightforward hard bop grooves and frantic, atonal avant-garde jazz. I can't even imagine coming close to making music that's this advanced.
Track listing:
1. Vision
2. Song of Happiness
3. Smitty's Place
4. Peresina
5. I Thought I'd Let You Know
The high priest
For jazz piano it's Waldron, Monk and Evans for me. Some Flanagan or Garland too. But I always thought Tyner just sort of banged around with no discernible spirit or touch. This album does nothing to dispel that feeling for me. I know people who are massive McCoy Tyner junkies. But I must admit it escapes me.
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ReplyDeleteAs an official Tyner Junkie [tm], thank you, because somehow I haven't had this one. Cheers.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for a really great share from an awesome piano player , just a tid bit of while during the late 70"s to the early 80"s McCoy Tyner drove a cab in NYC to make ends meet , jazz gigs at that time were very hard to come by we were lucky enough to have him drive a friend and I just by pure luck to a jazz club downtown (7th Avenue South owned by the Brecker Brothers at the time) what a ride I will never forget it or the stories told. That night showed me that life is full of surprises , heard some good music and met a jazz legend ( actually the only jazz musician I have had the luck to meet), this just doesn't happen everyday.
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