McCoy Tyner: Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-Q4-2023-shells-2 with Garbarek deep into his

with Garbarek deep into his free jazz vocabulary

but this set backed by Jimmy Bond (bass)

There’s a harder edge to the music than on previous releases

Alfred Lion came to hear Pearson at one such gig a couple of years later and loved what he heard

” the percolating original “Coffee Pot

McCoy Tyner: Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-Q4-2023-shells-2 with Garbarek deep into hisBlue Note, 1961 Pianist McCoy Tyner had been increasingly looking to Mother Africa for inspiration on his Blue Note recordings of the late 1960s on pieces like African Village and Message from the Nile. With his 1970 album Asante, Tyner brought those influences to the fore with a powerful set rooted in the swirling percussive rhythmic bed laid by drummer Billy Hart and percussionist Mtume. Bassist Buster Williams, guitarist Ted Dunbar, and alto