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Francisco Mela: Cirio: Live at the Blue Note
by J Hunter
Unlike many who started out at the Berklee School of Music--doing more time in the clubs than the classroom--Francisco Mela skipped the step of Berklee and went straight into the Boston club scene, working with the likes of Danilo Perez (who'd urged Mela to move from Cuba to Beantown in the first place), Roy Haynes, and ...
Francisco Mela: Cirio
by Mark F. Turner
Cirio is evidence that Francisco Mela marches and plays to the beat of a different drummer. Combining artistic influences of his Cuban upbringing with modern jazz, the youthful Boston based drummer/composer has studied at Berkley, toured with pianist Kenny Barron and performed with saxophonist Jane Bunnett's Grammy nominated “Spirits of Havana Band." Yet it's ...
McCoy Tyner: Guitars
by Mark F. Turner
Sometimes musicians make strange studio-fellows. When the esteemed pianist McCoy Tyner teams up with an illustrious rhythm section (drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Ron Carter) and five diverse and highly noted guitarists--(Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Derek Trucks and virtuoso banjoist, Bela Fleck)--the result is very special. Tyner's legacy is well documented ...
McCoy Tyner: Guitars
by Troy Collins
Pianist McCoy Tyner's dramatic arpeggios, thunderous bass pulses and modulated chord voicings have inspired generations of aspiring jazz musicians. An acoustic purist who sustained a viable career through the heavily electrified fusion era, Tyner has maintained impressive consistency in his performances and recordings since his seminal tenure in John Coltrane's classic mid-sixties quartet.Tyner's vast ...
Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter
by Jeff Stockton
Luis Perdomo is the regular pianist in Conrad Herwig's septet. He delivers a sterling, elegant solo on “Ping Pong," the opening cut on The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter, recorded live at the Blue Note in New York. He anchors the first five songs with such skill that at the end of “This Is for Albert," ...
McCoy Tyner: Quartet
by Jeff Stockton
It seems grossly unfair that the debonair, elegant elder statesman on the cover of Quartet, a document of the concerts McCoy Tyner and his band gave on Dec. 30th-31st, 2006 at Yoshi's in Oakland, would still be trying to live up to the reputation for excellence he established with the John Coltrane Quartet some forty-plus years ...
Sketches of Spain Y Mas
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Solar, Seven Steps To Heaven, Sketches Of Spain, Petits Machins.
From the Heart: Songs Sung Live at the Blue Note
By Grady Tate
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: You Are My Sunshine; Everybody Loves My Baby; Teach Me Tonight; Lush Life; Little Black Samba; Where Do We Start; All Blues; It Might As Well Be Spring; I've Got the World On A String.
McCoy Tyner Quartet
By McCoy Tyner
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit; Mellow Minor; Sama Layuca; Passion Dance; Search For Peace; Blues On The Corner; For All We Know.
McCoy Tyner: Quartet
by Mark Corroto
From the first few notes you know you're going to love this live recording by McCoy Tyner. With a bass line borrowed from John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964), the quartet doesn't exactly mimic the Coltrane era as much as take inspiration from its legacy. And of course that legacy included Tyner some forty years ...
