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Horizon (McCoy Tyner album)

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Released
  
1980

Horizon (1979)
  
Quartets 4 X 4 (1980)

Release date
  
1979

Label
  
Milestone Records

Recorded
  
April 24 & 25, 1979

Artist
  
McCoy Tyner

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

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Similar
  
McCoy Tyner albums, Jazz albums

Mccoy tyner horizon


Horizon is a 1979 album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner released on the Milestone label. It was recorded in April 1979 and features performances by Tyner with Joe Ford, George Adams, John Blake, Charles Fambrough, Al Foster and Guilherme Franco.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos states "Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career".

Track listing

  1. "Horizon" - 12:01
  2. "Woman of Tomorrow" (Blake) - 7:41
  3. "Motherland" (Blake) 7:17
  4. "One for Honor" (Fambrough) - 4:29
  5. "Just Feelin'" - 7:44
  6. "Horizon" [alternate take] - 11:46 Bonus track on 2007 reissue
All compositions by McCoy Tyner except as indicated
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, April 24 & 25, 1979

    • Personnel

  • McCoy Tyner: piano
  • Joe Ford: alto saxophone (track 3), soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
  • George Adams: tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
  • John Blake: violin (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
  • Charles Fambrough: bass
  • Al Foster: drums
  • Guilherme Franco: congas (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)

    • Songs

    1Horizon11:58
    2Woman of Tomorrow7:35
    3Motherland7:15

    References

    Horizon (McCoy Tyner album) Wikipedia
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