The Real McCoy

The Real McCoy Artist: McCoy Tyner
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724349780729
EAN: 0724349780729
ASIN: B00000I41E


Release Date: 1999-03-09

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Tracks:

  1. Passion Dance
  2. Contemplation
  3. Four By Five
  4. Search For Peace
  5. Blues On The Corner

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A must-have 60's blue note!.......2007-01-06

Like Coltrane's rhythm section with Joe Henderson! But Ron Carter on bass gives it some different directions. Great playing, great tunes, great Van Gelder sound - it doesn't get better than this.

5 out of 5 stars Bones!!.......2006-12-09

A rambling ride! Endlessly interesting. Whether fully churned or lazily meandering these players are top notch explorers. A charming work. Get it!

4 out of 5 stars a very serious pianist.......2006-11-06

except for ron carter replacing bob cranshaw on bass, the personnel here is the same as on david henderson's inner urge. what seemed like a quiet conspiracy between tyner and jones on inner urge becomes a ruling empire by the two on the real mccoy.
all the selections were written by tyner. his playing is no less than brilliant. he plays with focus and such virtuosity that on passion dance it sounds like two pianos are playing at the same time.
jones' drumming dominates behind the piano. joe henderson seems to have been invited just for the ride. he gets a chance to stretch on four by five where he explores different registers. this isn't henderson's best recording. but not his fault, tyner doesn't write well for sax players.

5 out of 5 stars McCoy Breaks Loose.......2004-11-21

This cd is a showcase for the younger McCoy Tyner's compositional and improvisational styles. It captures this master musician at a crossroads between the harder core modal music that he had been recording with John Coltrane a few years earlier and points the way to his own signature style that would emerge in later recordings. The quartet assembled here is perfectly matched and these 4 fine musicians created something of lasting value. Elvin Jones' drumming is dynamic and innovative, Ron Carter's bass playing is awesome and Joe Henderson's tenor provides the perfect counterweight to Tyner's piano. Henderson uses a combination of the lyrical with subtle and artful touches of dissonance that makes his sound unique and distinguished among jazz players. I think he may be the most underrated of the great sax players of his generation.
McCoy Tyner's compositional talents are stunning and the man has put out an amazing amount of great music over the years. He continues to this day to be one of the top innovators out there. The Real McCoy is an essential recording for anyone who wants to understand an important part of his evolution as an artist.

5 out of 5 stars McCoy Tyner At His Best.......2004-08-27

McCoy Tyner is one of the most influential pianists after 1960 because of his highly innovative style. However, like most geniuses, he did not always play in this way. He has lots of recordings to his credit where he plays in a traditional way. During his time with John Coltrane, he intentionally developed his own personal style. Bill Evans did the same thing around the time he worked with Miles Davis. This album is the best showcase of Tyner's unique style improvisational style and Tyner's unique compositional style. It also features some of the best musicians in modern jazz. Joe Henderson is on the tenor saxophone, Jimmy Garrison is on the bass, and Elvin Jones is on the drums.
"Passion Dance" kicks off the album, and it shows McCoy's talent for writing a modal song. It has one theme that is repeated many times, and then it goes to a second theme. The musicians improvise over an F7 for as long as they wish. However, one of the characteristics of McCoy's style is that he reharmonizes a lot, taking the same pattern through many different keys. His style is about as fierce as piano players get, pounding the lower keys on the piano and hammering out chords with his left hand, and his right hand runs through pentatonic scales. Joe Henderson's playing on this track is equally as fierce and loud. You hear more ferocity on the driving "Four By Five" later in the album.
This record is not just aggressive, though. "Contemplation" (the second tune) is one of my favorite McCoy songs. The melody is yearning and haunting, but delicate and beautiful at the same time. McCoy's use of repetition is prevalent here, too. The other ballad on this song is "Search for Peace", but it is not as good as "Contemplation".
The final track is "Blues on the Corner". Although it is a blues, it reeks of McCoy's style. It does not sound like a traditional blues, but its new sound shows how versatile the blues form is. This is a blues that both sounds like McCoy and retains the feel a blues must have to come off right. It is a great way to finish this album because it shows while McCoy's music is new and innovative, he hasn't forgotten the blues, which has always been a big part of every era in jazz.
This album is appropriately titled the Real McCoy because it is a wonderful showcase of McCoy's style (both as a composer and as a piano player). This is McCoy at his freshest and most innovative. If you want to know why McCoy Tyner is one of the biggest geniuses of modern jazz, you should pick up this album.

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