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| Artist: Mccoy Tyner
Label: MCCOY TYNER MUSIC
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 542
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 4537
UPC: 616892453727
EAN: 0616892453727
ASIN: B001D84S0Q
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Improvisation 2 (with Marc Ribot) | | • | Passion Dance (with Marc Ribot) | | • | 500 Miles (with Marc Ribot) | | • | Mr. P.C. (with John Scofield) | | • | Blues On The Corner (with John Scofield) | | • | Improvisation 1 (with Marc Ribot) | | • | Trade Winds (with Bela Fleck) | | • | Amberjack (with Bela Fleck) | | • | My Favorite Things (with Bela Fleck) | | • | Slapback Blues (with Derek Trucks) | | • | Greensleeves (with Derek Trucks) | | • | Contemplation (with Bill Frisell) | | • | Boubacar (with Bill Frisell) | | • | Baba Drame (with Bill Frisell) |
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Product Description
''I've never done anything like this before'' McCoy Tyner recently said of his second album on McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note Records, a CD/DVD titled GUITARS. Along with a trio of Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, Tyner invited guitarists Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Marc Ribot, and banjoist Bela Fleck for the studio recording and DVD shoot, scheduled for a September 23 release. ''It was great, and each guy had his own concept and own sound which is very, very important on any instrument, '' said Tyner, ''You know, I look for that, the individual sound and concept. ''
Legendary producer John Snyder oversaw the project along with executive producers Jeff Levenson, VP of McCoy Tyner Muisc/Half Note Records, and Steve Bensusan, President of the Blue Note Jazz Club. Said Levenson, ''What impressed me about the project was how seamless the integration was. We have guys with disparate styles. You have guys who approach their instruments differently. The beauty of this project is how they all found common ground with McCoy. ''
The CD is accompanied by a state of the art DVD featuring songs with each special guest guitarist and bonus footage. The DVD has 3 hours of multiple-angle viewing capability. By clicking the ANGLE button on the remote or the player on a computer, one can watch the Editor s Cut on Angle 1, all four musicians at once with Angle 2 (4 quadrants), or isolate any of the musicians and watch them exclusively with Angles 3 through 6.
Tyner, who will turn 70 on December 11, is looking forward to the week-long celebration at the Blue Note in Manhattan that ends on his birthday. When asked about his recording future, Tyner thought for a time and spoke candidly. ''I think there is always something to do that you haven't done exactly. There's always that the idea of what else can I do, and something always comes up. No two days are the same. So we look forward to tomorrow cause that's going to be different from yesterday and today. Hopefully it's a good one! ''
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 McCoy and guests, just what you'd expect September 23, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had no idea this was coming out until I saw it by chance in a store today and can now happily report that it is another excellent outing by the longstanding jazz master, McCoy Tyner in the middle of a phenomenal jazz trio with a number of distinguished guests. The trio consists of McCoy with Ron Carter on bass and Jack Dejohnette on drums. The guests are all either guitarists or in the case of Bela Fleck, a banjo player. The result is a varied, always interesting takes on a number of songs, including some Tyner standards, some classic Coltrane songs and a few of the guests' compositions for good measure.
The trio at the standard is exactly what you would expect, namely, superb. The skills of Tyner, Carter and Dejohnette have already in numerous places been praised, so I see no need to say anything other than that they live up to there reputations here. Especially Dejohnette, a personal favorite of mine, who constantly amazes with his sense of time, accent and space within the band. Only one person could have possibly done it better than him, in my opinion, and that would have been Elvin Jones. In the end, he and Ron Carter provide a very solid core over which McCoy and guests experiment. McCoy himself is continuing to go strong as he has in the past.
The guests, obviously, make this recording interesting, and there is a lot in there contributions. There are five of them (Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Bela Fleck, Derek Trucks and Bill Frisell) and each has a very distinctive style and repertoire. The result is that the album is varied, not so varied as to lack cohesion, but varied enough to remain interesting throughout. Their very specifics sorts of tones add a lot to the mix of the album. Trucks, for instance is very blues driven, while Scofield has a wider, more mellow tone. A personal favorite for me is Bela Fleck. Anyone familiar with his album with Chick Corea, 'The Enchantment', will know how versatile and talented he is. Here he plays three songs, two of his originals and 'My Favorite Things'. His compositions are probably the most interesting on the album, distinctive from the more standard sounding sorts of songs (like the Coltrane blues 'Mr PC') and they offer McCoy a different sort of space to some into musically. That being said, Bela also fits right in on 'My Favorite things' demonstrating some very healthy, sometimes Trane-like complicated licks. John Scofield is my next favorite. He really tears it up 'Mr PC', so much so, that McCoy remarks afterwards that the guitar had to have caught on fire.
Which brings me to my last point, and a great surprise for me, the Bonus DVD. The quote from Tyner cannot be found on the album itself, but on the DVD, which contains studio video of some of the songs from the album. For each song, there is a section while they warm up and discuss the way they will play the song, and then there is the song itself, followed by a brief period of conversation. The song is obviously the most interesting part, as you get to see the musicians actually performing. The best part of this arrangement, are the multiple camera angles. They had four cameras in the studio, one on each musician and there are six different viewing options. The first one is pre-edited and switches from musician to musician. The second one shows all angles simultaneously and the last four show just one specific musician (like Jack Dejohnette, all the way through the song). This was a very interesting feature, Which I had a lot of fun with, being able to watch the musicians work is incredibly impressive, to say the least.
All in All, this was a solid production. I do not think that it is the next 'A Love Supreme', but certainly worth looking into for fans of any of the musicians involved. You will not be disappointed.
 Guitarists were a let down October 2, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a big fan of McCoy Tyner, I decided to buy this album, though I had never heard of two of the guitarists listed. Mr. Tyner's playing is enjoyable, though I think it suffers somewhat from the guitarists on the CD. Of all the guitarists, John Scofield seems the most comfortable. Derek Turks turns in an interesting solo on Slapback Blues and Bill Frisell plays some pleasant lines in Boubacar. Bela Fleck, who isn't a guitarist, seems like he's always playing catch up on his tunes. Marc Ribot sounds as if he took a wrong turn in the Village and ended up in a Jazz club unprepared to play. From the liner notes, Mr. Tyner had never played with Marc Ribot or Derek Trucks. It seems safe to assume, then, that some producer at Half Note Records conceived of this venture. It's an interesting idea but the guitarists are all wrong. The album really never takes a hard swinging flight which Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette are capable of. It's not their fault, though; with the exception of Mr. Scofield, these guitarists are simply outclassed. Why not pick guitarists like Pat Martino, Jimmy Bruno, William Ash, Bob Devos, and Jimmy Ponder? Again, with the exception of John Scofield, none of these guitarists, or banjo player, sounds like they're at home in the hard bop idiom. Mr. Tyner sounds great but it's a shame the geniuses at Half Note didn't call in the big guns to make this an affair to remember.
5 GUITARS October 24, 2008
This is an excellent CD. Perhaps different listeners will have their preference as to which guitarist worked best with McCoy. I believe they all worked well. I have not yet watched the full 3 hours on the DVD, but that which I have watched was a welcome supplement to the CD. Note: The DVD is not a widescreen surround sound experience, but it is presented with skill and professionalism.
 Great McCoy Tyner record November 1, 2008
When McCoy Tyner makes a record, you have to buy it - so just go ahead and buy this record! This is a great McCoy Tyner record. Throughout, he is stunning. He holds nothing back; at times, he's like a thunderstorm.
There are many amazing songs, but none grabbed me quite like the three with Bela Fleck. Whoa! The interplay is sublime, Bela goes way over the top, especially on Trade Winds when he turns the tune into a raga, and on My Favorite Things, when he goes "out" in a very John Coltrane sort of way. The band really pulled together on these pieces and it sounded like they were really enjoying themselves.
The Bill Frisell pieces are also noteworthy and, to my ears, have the best guitar playing on the record. These pieces are essential modern jazz and like on the Bela Fleck tunes, it sounds like a band, not just a studio date.
The reason I rate this 4 stars instead of 5 is that the sound is pretty muddy. Ron Carter sounds like he's coming through a tube, and Jack DeJohnette sounds like he's in another room (which he is, I guess). When the two rock guitar players get into distortion-land, it gets pretty irritating, in a crowded room sort of way.
One other small trifle: the producer states in the liner notes that McCoy Tyner has never recorded with guitar players before. This is not accurate. There are three previous examples that I know of: his record with Carlos Santana (Looking Out), a duets record that featured John Scofield on a couple of songs, and his recording with George Benson (Tenderly).
Buy this CD and keep supporting McCoy Tyner. He is an American treasure.
This is fun! -) November 16, 2008
This collection is about McCoy Tyner playing with 5 very different fretted string players (4 guitars, 1 banjo). It's not so much about what the guitarist do, per se. All of the guest do what it is that they do. Bill Frisell plays with an economy of notes, tossing in county and blues chords and riffs and playing in a cool understated groove. Derek Trucks played like a real good blues player. etc... All the guest are great players and if you don't like any of them, chances are you won't like thier contribution on this collection either.
One thing is for sure; John Scofield and McCoy Tyner smoke. For the other players, you could feel McCoy adaping to the groove of the guitar/banjo player. With Scofield there was no adaptation nessesary. They both just jump right in.
The DVD is fun as well. With 74:20 Minutes on the CD and a packed DVD this is a great buy and although I have my favorites, I found it all interesting and fun to listen to.
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