Time for Tyner

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

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724356383920
EAN: 0724356383920
ASIN: B000A2H7TK

Release Date: 2005-08-02

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Tracks:

African Village
Little Madimba
May Street
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

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Customer Reviews:

My son's namesake for good reason!.......2006-03-08

McCoy Tyner, along with John Coltrane and the rest of THE quartet, have meant so much to me musically over the years, that I blessed my son with McCoy as a middle name. Being my favorite pianist, his music has provided me with endless enjoyment ever since I became a "real" jazz fan. This album, "Time For Tyner" is exactly what I'm referring to. I have always been impressed with McCoy's skill as a composer, honed more than likely during his time spent with Trane. I've noticed that he always pulls the best out of his personnel, regardless of the set up. A great quartet setting here with no horns is the perfect backdrop for McCoy's wizardry. The originals he penned for this album are amazing, all killer and no filler. Vibist Bobby Hutcherson complements McCoy perfectly, while Freddie Waits and Herbie Lewis on drums and bass respectively swing as well. The opening original track "African Village" is utterly amazing. Pay close attention to the synergy of this lineup. Incredible! A mandatory addition to the Tyner catalog, "Time" is as good a RVG reissue as there is out there!

Finally "Time for Tyner".......2005-08-17

The latest batch of Blue Note/EMI RVG reissues (8/2/05) feature some terrific albums, many of which until now have been out-of-print on CD for a good while. In fact, two of the titles, Bobby Hutcherson's "Oblique" (see my review) and this title, McCoy Tyner's "Time for Tyner," have been unavailable (aside from a brief resurfacing in the old Collector's Choice reprint program) for nearly 15 years! Well I must say it is great that the EMI execs finally had time for Tyner. This May 17, 1968 session features McCoy on piano and Hutcherson on vibes, with Herbie Lewis on bass, and Freddie Waits on drums. The best thing about this disc is its unbelievable chemistry -- Lewis and Waits joined Tyner to form a formidable rhythm trio, appearing together again on McCoy's next Blue Note album "Expansions." But this recording was also the genesis of a partnership between Tyner and Hutch that would be revisited many times in the following decades, on albums led by both artists. The first three tracks, penned by McCoy, are wonderful and show a mature writing talent fusing musical elements of other cultures, particularly African rhythms, into his jazz. The letdown is the three show tunes on the old B-side. The first of those three, "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," is also performed by the entire quartet, but the remaining two unfortunately feature just a piano trio and solo piano respectively. They are well-played, but recall his Impulse trio days when the label wanted some sellable material, when in my opinion just keeping the quartet going with Hutch for two more numbers would have been the best sale of all. Despite this, "Time for Tyner" is one of those rare Blue Note gems that I have enjoyed for years, and now with this reissue you can too.

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