The Real McCoy (McCoy Tyner album)

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The Real McCoy
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1967 (1967-10) [1]
RecordedApril 21, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz, post-bop, modal jazz
Length37:06
Label Blue Note BST 84264
Producer Alfred Lion
McCoy Tyner chronology
McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington
(1965)
The Real McCoy
(1967)
Tender Moments
(1968)
Professional ratings
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The Real McCoy is the seventh album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his first released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded on April 21, 1967, following Tyner's departure from the John Coltrane Quartet. It features performances by Tyner with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Elvin Jones. Producer Alfred Lion recalls the recording session as a "pure jazz session. There is absolutely no concession to commercialism, and there's a deep, passionate love for the music embedded in each of the selections".

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Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection" calling it "A key album in Tyner's discography... Very highly recommended." [6] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states that "Tyner was entering a period of struggle, although artistically his playing grew quite a bit in the late '60s... easily recommended". [2]

Compositions

In the liner notes, Tyner talks about the pieces selected for this album. The titles for "Passion Dance" and "Contemplation" came to the pianist only after he'd written the pieces. Whilst the former sounds like "a kind of American Indian dance, evoking trance-like states", the latter has "the sound of a man alone. A man reflecting on what religion means to him, reflecting on the meaning of life." Tyner titled the fourth piece "Search for Peace" because of its tranquil feeling; it "has to do with a man's submission to God" and the "giving over of the self to the universe". The album closes with an upbeat, merry piece called "Blues on the Corner", a reminiscent musical portrait of Tyner's childhood: "When I was growing up in Philadelphia, some of the kids I knew liked to hang out on the corner [...] youngsters talking, kidding around, jiving." [7]

Track listing

All compositions by McCoy Tyner

  1. "Passion Dance" – 8:47
  2. "Contemplation" – 9:12
  3. "Four by Five" – 6:37
  4. "Search for Peace" – 6:32
  5. "Blues on the Corner" – 5:58

Personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott (2011). "The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved July 17, 2011.
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  7. Original liner notes by Nat Hentoff