View basket “Bach, Handel, Vivaldi” has been added to your basket. Sahara McCoy Tyner SKU: OJC311 Barcode: 025218631112 14.00 £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: OJC Released Date: 10th December 2016 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After the death of John Coltrane, his longtime pianist McCoy Tyner was in something of a musical quandary. Keeping up with his mentor through the incredible explorations of the early ’60s, he seemed to have some difficulty navigating the even further out territories explored in the two or three years before Coltrane’s death in 1967. His subsequent albums as a leader were solid, enjoyable efforts but seemed oddly retrograde, as though he needed time to settle back and re-digest the information handed down to him. With Sahara, Tyner found the precise perfect “middle ground” on which to stand, more structured than late Coltrane, but exploding with a ferocity and freedom of sound that made it simply one of the greatest jazz recordings of the decade. None of the other members of his quartet ever sounded so inspired, so liberated as they do here. Sonny Fortune threatens to tear the roof off the joint on more than one occasion, Calvin Hill is more than rock-solid on bass, his roots arcing deeply into the earth, and as for Alphonse Mouzon, well, no one familiar with his later vapid meanderings in fusion would begin to recognize him here, so incendiary is his playing. And Tyner develops so much pure energy, channeled with such pinpoint precision, that one worries about the physical stability of any piano under such an assault. From the extraordinarily intense “Ebony Queen” through the ruminative solo “A Prayer for My Family, the equally intense “Rebirth,” and the concluding, side-long title track, there’s not a misstep to be heard. “Sahara,” over the course of its 23 minutes, covers vast ground, echoing the majesty and misery of the geographical area with percussion and flute interludes to some of Tyner’s very best playing on record. Even something that could have resulted in a mere exercise in exotica, his koto performance on “Valley of Life,” exudes both charm and commitment to the form. Tyner would go on to create several fine albums in the mid-’70s, but never again would he scale quite these heights. Sahara is an astonishingly good record and belongs in every jazz fan’s collection. Artist McCoy Tyner Genre Jazz Label OJC Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1 Ebony Queen - 9:00 2 A Prayer for My Family - 4:48 3 Valley of Life - 5:19 4 Rebirth - 5:22 5 Sahara - 23:27 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from McCoy Tyner View Product Quick View McCoy Tyner Today and Tomorrow Jazz | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve | 180g, 1LP Released 12th January 2024 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders McCoy Tyner Today and Tomorrow £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve SKU: 5835509 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View McCoy Tyner Extensions (Tone Poet) Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st December 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders McCoy Tyner Extensions (Tone Poet) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 4509259 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st December 2023 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