The Rare McCoy

For this session recorded on 13 and April 14, 1982 at Rudy van Gelder in New Jersey, elders comrades of John Coltrane McCoy Tyner (piano) and Elvin Jones (drums), have ensured the services of bassist Richard Davis (whose album Homage to Diversity is, we repeat, a small wonder), of saxophonist tenor Pharoah Sanders (who had cruciate the two leaders among Coltrane in circumstances rather stormy - at the time, the two men do not found themselves their young in the musical direction taken by Saint John, who replaced them by Alice Coltrane and Rashied Ali to give birth of a music at the then unheard intensity), and guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly, himself poured into the free.

Session under the sign of appeasement and reconciliation therefore, right down the title of the album, a anachronistic and enough Sandersien strand: Love & peace. Surprise, no recovery Coltrane is only the program! Good, Tyner and Sanders have their separate and in their own way already dug this trench. Of the six tracks that make up the sold, three are from the pen of Pharoah: "Little Rock's blues" (a blues, so), "Hip Jones" (good atmosphere, so) and "Origin" (that Pharoah will also record with its own training). The other three include "For Tomorrow" of Tyner, as well as the ballad "Korina" and the standard "Sweet & lovely", emanating from foreign composers at the sitting. Throughout, a Elvin Jones in great shape splashes the landscape of powerful and dense keystrokes, does calming the game as for leave to McCoy Tyner the care of soloing (all interventions of pianist on this album are remarkable of inspiration and conciseness - one can prefer the pianist in this digitally narrow context that within wide orchestral ensembles that he often led at the previous decade) - as if Jones had a revenge to take on Sanders, who do in yet leaves not tell and passes without blinking through the percussive dam launched at all strength in his direction by the facetious Jones, who takes himself once more for a hailstorm all by himself. Is that Pharoah has seen others, and not impressed for so little! The bassist Richard Davis perhaps serves he too mark, longtime of Impulse sessions companion! historical Little Rock. Davis fact show firmness but especially of a sweetness Round; best when accompanied Tyner in his lyrical one pleases. Pharoah Sanders mell into his sound velvety brute force Jones, the sensitivity of Tyner, heat Davis and a tinted sensuality spirituality of its own. One in the other group to the ephemeral existence proves perfectly balanced. The Yin and the Yang, in short. Bourelly ensures electric scrapers but still a little behind, doing mostly office additional colorist; not easy to say in this context - I'd already hidden under the piano! Good drive, short drive (36 minutes), rare record, expensive disk. Remains the legal download, available here same, alternative and economic solution for those who lack the means to afford the original but would want all the same hear what it.