Guitars (McCoy Tyner album)

Guitars
Studio album by McCoy Tyner
Released June 22, 2008
Recorded September 7 & 25 2007
Genre Jazz
Label McCoy Tyner Music
McCoy Tyner chronology
Quartet
(2007)
Guitars
(2008)
Solo: Live from San Francisco
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Guitars is an album by McCoy Tyner released on his McCoy Tyner Music (a subsidiary of Half Note Records) label in 2008. It was recorded in September 2007 and features performances by Tyner, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette with Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Béla Fleck, Derek Trucks, and Bill Frisell. The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos states that "It's an interesting slice in time, but not a definitive recording in Tyner's legendary and lengthy musical career".[2] The album also contains a DVD of several of the performances.

Track listing

  1. "Improvisation 2" (Ribot, Tyner) - 1:34
  2. "Passion Dance" - 6:10
  3. "500 Miles" (Traditional) - 6:22
  4. "Mr. P.C." (Coltrane) - 6:21
  5. "Blues on the Corner" - 6:07
  6. "Improvisation 1" (Ribot, Tyner) - 3:46
  7. "Trade Winds" (Fleck) - 6:35
  8. "Amberjack" (Fleck) - 4:36
  9. "My Favorite Things" (Hammerstein, Rodgers) - 7:01
  10. "Slapback Blues" - 3:46
  11. "Greensleves" (Traditional) - 6:15
  12. "Contemplation" - 7:55
  13. "Boubacar" (Frisell) - 2:18
  14. "Baba Drame" (Traoré) - 5:21
All compositions by McCoy Tyner except as indicated
  • Recorded at Clinton Studios, New York on September 7 (tracks 4-5 & 10-14) and September 25 (tracks 1-3 & 6-9), 2006

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed March 6, 2009.
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