PLEASE DON'T USE THE WAH PEDAL, MARC
― thomp, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't really stomach any of those guys except Ribot
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I really can't supply an informed opinion on any of them, tbh
The first Fleck track (technically not involving guitar) is really great — droney banjo that sounds vaguely like something I have heard before — possibly serpent power?
Scofield on 'Mr P.C.' is fairly okay.
― thomp, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I also haven't liked anything new from Tyner in a long time.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Erm, I mean I guess I haven't liked anything new from Tyner since I've been listening to jazz. I wasn't even born when his best records came out.
picked up 'Trident' on vinyl for cheap over the weekend, such a great record. the first track sounds like a vamp for a pop song but still totally works with their style.
still don't have a copy of 'Enlightment'. :/
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
excited because there is a cheap-ish copy of enlightenment near work (i think) and i checked this thread to see if it was worth getting and i am totally picking it up after work (if that is the album i saw in the racks) (and if it is still there)
got inner voices for £4 the other day at flashback and am really liking it, even if its an unusual record for him. reminds me a bit of alice coltrane's om supreme, with all the vocals and harmonies, which is my favourite alice track of all
― beer say hi to me (stevie), Thursday, 18 August 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
good late night listening is the One on One album (not the UKIP mano a mano version obv :p) with Stephane Grappelli, so elegant and beautiful.
― calzino, Monday, 24 October 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
I've been listening to a ton of Tyner recently. His Milestone run is exceptional, and the records are generally cheap and plentiful. Trident, Sama Luyaca, Focal Point are all still really, really good.
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
thanks for the reminder, I have Sahara and an Impulse best-of 2LP but yeah those Milestone releases are cheap and good
― sleeve, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Funnily enough I don't think a whole lot of his Impulse releases. They're extremely tame compared to what Coltrane got out of him. Still he more than made up for it later. Keepnews was a good partner for him in terms of keeping the record concepts fresh without getting too gimmicky.
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
I was thinking it would be great if there was a box set of his Milestone albums (the Joe Henderson Milestone box is fucking fantastic) but there are 19 of them. Insane.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
I totally love his impulse albums, Inception and the plays Duke Ellington one are classic!
― calzino, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
I haven't dug into his Impulse catalog, but I love his Blue Note stuff, especially Extensions, The Real McCoy, and Tender Moments, which you'd probably expect to be a trio ballad date 'cause of it's title, but it's actually a kick-ass nonet album with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bob Northern (aka Brother Ah) on French horn, Howard Johnson on tuba, James Spaulding on alto sax and flute, Bennie Maupin on tenor sax, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
Trident is an incredible album, my favorite of the six or seven tyners I know
Enlightenment pretty sick too
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
I picked Trident up by chance a while back and it's become a favorite. Celeste & harpsichord! At the same time! Not to mention a reunion with Elvin Jones.
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Over on the music to get sober to topic, we had a small McCoy Tyner discussion going. I've only three of his leader albums: The Real McCoy, Enlightenment, and Supertrios. Enlightenment is, far and away, the best of them. I've always been really intimidated by the size of his catalogue as a leader, so I've stuck with those three for years.
― Austin, Monday, 3 July 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
just listen to it once earlier, but the latest Benito Gonzalez lp: Passion Reverence Transcendence - The Music of McCoy Tyner sounded rather good.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
thread bump of fear
but yeah one day i need to actually properly dig into his catalogue, there's a lot of it and i haven't heard anything bad yet
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
He looks too healthy and busy to die yet, famous last words.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
I know a guy who hates Benito, says he a one trick pony, but I think he’s great.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
I thought I heard multiple tricks!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Ha, yeah exactly
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Back in March I reviewed all 19 albums he recorded in the 1970s, first on Blue Note and then on Milestone:
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 28 May 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
damn, good runthrough, this might be what finally gets me into '70s tyner
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 28 May 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Trident rules super hard
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Monday, 28 May 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
Tyner played with a ton of great musicians and like many of his era in jazz, there are other great appearances as a sideman. The couple of mid 60s records he did with Joe Henderson are worth checking out, as the tunes have a different groove than the Coltrane band.
― earlnash, Monday, 28 May 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
thanks for that link phil, love the few 70s mccoy albums i own and am always up for more
― Total Goat Rodeo (stevie), Monday, 28 May 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
"Trident" and "Fly To The Wind" : two of my favorite Sunday morning back-to-back listens
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 28 May 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
Fly With The WindI actually used to put that title track on mix tapes for people when I was a teen. I'd completely forgotten though.. need to go give it a listen
― kinder, Monday, 28 May 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Song Of The New World is incredible as well, probably my fave of his 70's period.
― calzino, Monday, 28 May 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard much of Tyner's Impulse stuff as a leader, but his BN run is good to great and his Milestone run is nothing short of incredible. I think having a sympathetic, creative producer in Orrin Keepnews did a lot toward keeping him sounding fresh over a nearly a decade of two releases a year.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
Fly With The Wind
OMG thank you guys so much for recommending this. Instant favorite.
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
still think Passion Reverence Transcendence: The Music of McCoy Tyner by Benito Gonzalez is really excellent, so uplifting.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
good god do not scare me with this revive like that
I just heard Tender Moments for the first time the other day. Basically Tyner with Lee Morgan's band right? Great stuff, but why expect anything else? His standard of quality over the years was amazingly high.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Seriously.
And yeah, Tender Moments is amazing. Rarely has an album so totally failed to live up to its title. That thing smokes.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
saw this revive and felt sick to my stomach
will check the benito
― budo jeru, Thursday, 8 November 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
Basically whenever I'm in a record shop I check if they have any McCoy Tyner, and if I don't have it I buy it, and I'm never disappointed
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Thursday, 8 November 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
Not to mention he’s usually light on the wallet
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 10 November 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
RIP to the great one. What a career, what music.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Ugh. RIP
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
oh man no. RIP
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 6 March 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
damn
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
Whenever I dip back into 70s prog and fusion, I hope it will sound this elegant and catchy, but it's too high a bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIXDTH-sLA
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
man there was no one on earth like this guy
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
Guy in WKCR just switched over in the middle of Elvin Live at the Lighthouse to a McCoy-led project featuring Elvin and Alice Coltrane.
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
After thirty seconds of silence of course
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Just got into his catalogue not too long and now he's gone. Damn damn damn. RIP
― ascai, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
Stack those fourths til you get all the way up to heaven
― ascai, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
Extensions
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Was listening to Alice Coltrane's Huntington Ashram tonight, and some of the piano later on the album really reminded me of McCoy. Did they ever collaborate?
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah; she's on his album Extensions.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 28 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Ah! I only have mp3s of that one [and thus no sleevenotes] but it's one of my favourites of his
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Love this set, for the music, but also for the audience shots of blissed out mid-70s Europeans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZkbSeyF6M
― Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
Amazing - thanks for sharing
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
RIP Juini Booth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7mPNvwMYM
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
RIP, but also yes, I love this particular band and it's great to see what Alphonse Mouzon is actually doing. Those 90' cymbals and perfectly flat drums!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 12 July 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link