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''I've never done anything like this before'' McCoy Tyner recently said of his second album on McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note Records, a CD/DVD titled GUITARS. Along with a trio of Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, Tyner invited guitarists Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Marc Ribot, and banjoist Bela Fleck for the studio recording and DVD shoot, scheduled for a September 23 release. ''It was great, and each guy had his own concept and own sound which is very, very important on any instrument, '' said Tyner, ''You know, I look for that, the individual sound and concept. ''

Legendary producer John Snyder oversaw the project along with executive producers Jeff Levenson, VP of McCoy Tyner Muisc/Half Note Records, and Steve Bensusan, President of the Blue Note Jazz Club. Said Levenson, ''What impressed me about the project was how seamless the integration was. We have guys with disparate styles. You have guys who approach their instruments differently. The beauty of this project is how they all found common ground with McCoy. ''

The CD is accompanied by a state of the art DVD featuring songs with each special guest guitarist and bonus footage. The DVD has 3 hours of multiple-angle viewing capability. By clicking the ANGLE button on the remote or the player on a computer, one can watch the Editor s Cut on Angle 1, all four musicians at once with Angle 2 (4 quadrants), or isolate any of the musicians and watch them exclusively with Angles 3 through 6.

Tyner, who will turn 70 on December 11, is looking forward to the week-long celebration at the Blue Note in Manhattan that ends on his birthday. When asked about his recording future, Tyner thought for a time and spoke candidly. ''I think there is always something to do that you haven't done exactly. There's always that the idea of what else can I do, and something always comes up. No two days are the same. So we look forward to tomorrow cause that's going to be different from yesterday and today. Hopefully it's a good one! ''

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 4.74 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Mccoy Tyner Music
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2008
Label ‏ : ‎ Mccoy Tyner Music
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001D84S0Q
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

Best Sellers Rank: #27,908 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #68 in Avant Garde & Free Jazz (CDs & Vinyl)
- #129 in Guitar Rock
- #167 in Modern Postbebop (CDs & Vinyl)

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Lance B. Sjogren

unique

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2021

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An album from a pianist which features guitar players. Creative idea and it works wonderfully.

McCoy Tyner takes pretty much a back seat role in the music and allows the album to serve as a vehicle for the guitar players to showcase their skills. The songs with each guitarist present a unique style. Scofield performs his brilliant modal jazz and Frisell performs in his sort of etherial style. Fleck performs a somewhat bluegrassy banjo, and Trucks plays bluesy guitar. I find those all extremely pleasing. The only songs that didn't work for me were the ones with Marc Ribot.

Overall, I consider this a brilliant and beautiful album.

I have a lot of McCoy Tyner albums with lots of incredible instrumental work by Tyner on the piano. This album is quite a contrast from those, but it works beautifully.

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Miss Pinky

Guitars

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2011

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I enjoyed this CD. I have read some of the critical reviews concerning the guitarists who appear on the CD. The critical reviewers probably have valid points concerning Derek Trucks and Marc Ribot. Trucks is a Southern Rock guitarist ( The Allman Brothers Band and The Derek Trucks Band ) and I've never heard of Ribot before. I am also not a guitarist, so I can't give an opinion concerning their level of technical skill one way or the other. However, the point that there are other JAZZ guitarists alive who would probably be a better fit with McCoy and the other Jazz musicians is very well taken. I will say that McCoy has probably picked up quite a few new young fans of his jazz music by the inclusion of Trucks on this CD. There are not that many young people today that even know what mainstream jazz music sounds like outside of smooth jazz, which they associate with an elevator or the Dentists office. I had a 16 years old male come into my office as I was listening to this CD and he was very interested in knowing who the artist was and this kid is generally very negative in his opinions. He thought the guitar playing sounded very good. I also lent this CD to another male student, who is a guitarist, and he said that he liked the music contained on it very much as well. So the opinions on the skill level of a couple of the guitarists aside, this jazz music is generally well liked by the majority of the people who have listened to and reviewed this CD. Perhaps the negative reviewers are highly educated musicians and they are correct in their opinions. All I know is that I enjoy the music recorded on this CD. I have not watched the DVD, so I can't comment on it.

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Patrick Moore LMT BA

McCoy Always Introducing New Instruments to Jazz--DVD is Awesome

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2013

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I loved McCoy Tyner's Inner Voices Inner Voices , in the 1970s, that used a vocal chorus as one of the jazz instruments. Nobody had done this before and I've never heard it since. He also had an album called Horizon Horizon where he had a violin played by John Blake as the first solo instrument. This was not like Jean Luc Ponty's new-agey violin, but more like mainstream jazz improvisation, which is still unusual for violin. His album Inner Voices also included two tracks with Earl Klugh playing acoustic guitar, which is rarely done in jazz. Now he has given us several more guitarists and Bela Fleck on banjo! The tunes chosen are all great tunes, and McCoy has not lost it yet with his own improvising.

The DVD really thrilled me, to see the artists jamming before the recorded tracks, discussing vamps, who solos when, and so forth, and then to see them in the studio for the final track. I really like to see McCoy's hands playing, so that I may learn to play like him. His hands look so gentle on the keys that it is difficult to imagine so much assertive sound coming out of the speakers.

This is an expensive set (with the DVD) but worth it.

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Peter Krammer

Great McCoy Tyner record

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2008

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When McCoy Tyner makes a record, you have to buy it - so just go ahead and buy this record! This is a great McCoy Tyner record. Throughout, he is stunning. He holds nothing back; at times, he's like a thunderstorm.

There are many amazing songs, but none grabbed me quite like the three with Bela Fleck. Whoa! The interplay is sublime, Bela goes way over the top, especially on Trade Winds when he turns the tune into a raga, and on My Favorite Things, when he goes "out" in a very John Coltrane sort of way. The band really pulled together on these pieces and it sounded like they were really enjoying themselves.

The Bill Frisell pieces are also noteworthy and, to my ears, have the best guitar playing on the record. These pieces are essential modern jazz and like on the Bela Fleck tunes, it sounds like a band, not just a studio date.

The reason I rate this 4 stars instead of 5 is that the sound is pretty muddy. Ron Carter sounds like he's coming through a tube, and Jack DeJohnette sounds like he's in another room (which he is, I guess). When the two rock guitar players get into distortion-land, it gets pretty irritating, in a crowded room sort of way.

One other small trifle: the producer states in the liner notes that McCoy Tyner has never recorded with guitar players before. This is not accurate. There are three previous examples that I know of: his record with Carlos Santana (Looking Out), a duets record that featured John Scofield on a couple of songs, and his recording with George Benson (Tenderly).

Buy this CD and keep supporting McCoy Tyner. He is an American treasure.

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Simply The Best

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2021

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Well worth the money. McCoy Tyner simply played well above most top Jazz piano players. Hearing him at the Regatta Bar - Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA or at the NJF in Newport, RI with his classic trio composed of Avery Sharp on the bass and Louis Hayes on the drums was always quite a musical journey.

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One piano fills a universe

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2009

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To paraphrase William Blake: "One piano fills a universe." (if McCoy Tyner is playing it.) - energy, expansiveness, intelligence, passion. This is a wonderful album, with the eminently generous Mr. Tyner hosting a group of great guitarists. (A few weeks ago a local college radio program showcased a few decades of work by some lesser-known jazz musicians...on many albums, there was hard-working McCoy, like Atlas, holding much of it up. Would it be wrong to call him a "reliable genius?")

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J. D. Naylor

Guitars - Five for the price of one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2008

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Excellent CD & DVD package from Tyner's own Half Note / McCoy Tyner music label with hours of listening and viewing pleasure.The CD is based around the McCoy Tyner trio which consists of himself,Ron carter and Jack DeJohnette with five guitarists guesting on 2, 3 or 4 tracks each.The contrasting style of the guitarists make for a very interesting listen indeed.
First up is Marc Ribot with a very rock/fusion'sh sound which, i must admit doesn't quite sound right with the piano trio but he does solo well though.John Scofield is next and fits in perfectly in my opinion with a great swinging version of "Mr PC" (one of the picks of the album) and a time honoured rendition of "Blues on the corner".Shame he didn't stick around for an extra track or two.Bela Fleck lends a very different sound and style to the proceedings with his banjo and gives a twangingly good rendition of "My favourite things" ! Derek Trucks who previously unknown to me, is very bluesey and melodic and performs well on "Greensleeves".Lastly is Bill Frisell who,for me,plays the pick of the album in "Contemplation" letting his airey atmospheric guitar take over for a serene and beautiful piece of music.The other two Frisell tracks are his own originals and are more indicative of his current solo work rather than that of a jazz quartet.
Tyner himself deserves a mention for putting together a great and very varied session even if his own playing is not quite what it was.These days he seems to resort pretty much to chordal work with little evidence of that famous right hand of his.That aside he still has much to offer at the piano but just in a different,and probably age determined style.
The DVD is shot entirely in the studio and offers an excellent insight into the making of the album.As well as each track in full you also get the warm ups,run throughs and brainstorming sessions from the musicians.For example you can see the concentration on scofield's face listening to a playback of mr PC,Tyner and Ribot discussing how many bars of A flat or E flat should be in Passion Dance,and McCoy eating his sandwiches at the piano are a few examples of the intimacies not normally seen by the public.You also have a choice of camera angles so you can focus on which ever individual musician takes your fancy.A long review i know but there is much to enjoy in this package and is well worth the investment.

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ojc

A genius deserved better

Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2020

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It makes me sad that this is the very last studio session McCoy Tyner ever recorded. Of course, Tyner himself sounds wonderful, his powers and ideas barely diminished with age, and the rhythm section is exemplary.

But the titular guitarists are a really mixed bag, and that's being kind. This album was concocted by a producer, with Tyner himself essentially playing the role of session musician. The guest guitarists picked the material. This is too bad -- Tyner had worked with guitarists before (including Earl Klugh and Carlos Santana), integrating them successfully into his own idiom. Not so here, where Tyner has to work to hold the music together, often at the expense of being able to make his own points.

As most people have observed, Scofield comes off the best, gliding happily through two blues. His fussy style isn't the most natural fit for Tyner's, and his dry tone isn't very attractive here, but he sounds completely professional.

Not so for Ribot and Trucks. The latter sounds OK in his southern-rock style on slide, but he is not much of an improviser and basically just plays a bunch of blues licks. This is my first exposure to both him and Ribot. It's amazing to me that Ribot was given a chance to record with Tyner -- he plays in a squiggly style sort of like Tom Verlaine, but without Verlaine's commanding tone or wealth of surprising ideas. He plays power chords, trots out some aimless toodle-oo licks, detunes his strings, fiddles with an e-bow, and frequently just sounds bored and disconnected from the music. On the two duo numbers with just Tyner, he struggles to keep up with the master or hear the key. (He somehow makes an even worse impression in the bonus DVD.) Both Ribot and Trucks come off as completely out of their depth.

Bela Fleck and Bill Frisell sound much better. Fleck is also not really a linear improviser, but his zooming arpeggios sure are arresting. Unlike the others, he doesn't attempt to take long solos, and the sound of his instrument is really cool in this context. Strangely, it's Tyner who sometimes seems unsure what to do with Fleck's tunes (except "My Favorite Things"). Closing out the album, Frisell plays with admirable restraint and a sense of space and occasion. But the last two tracks -- which run together and total about 10 minutes -- really don't give us much Tyner, who is reduced to playing simple minor arpeggios while Frisell plays a single lick over and over with minimal variation.

The late McCoy Tyner, one of the most original and brilliant American musicians of all time, deserved a better studio send-off.

ball_room_five

曲者ギタリストとの共演

Reviewed in Japan on October 5, 2008

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マッコイ・タイナーの新譜はロン・カーター、ジャック・ディジョネットとのトリオが
ギタリストをゲストに迎えたもの。そのギタリストがマーク・リボー、ジョン・スコフ
ィールド、ベラ・フレック（彼はバンジョー）、デレク・トラックス、ビル・フリゼール
というマッコイのキャリアからはちょっと想像するのが難しい曲者達。このあたりはこの
アルバムのプロデューサーであるジョン・スナイダーの人選だろうが非常に面白い。
各ギタリストともそれぞれの持ち味を生かした演奏で、マッコイにフリー・インプロヴィ
ゼーションをさせてしまうマーク・リボーなどボーナスDVDの映像を含めてとても興味深い。
またデレク・トラックスなどは自身のバンドでコルトレーン・ナンバーをレパートリーに
しているせいもあってか意外なほどマッコイの演奏と調和している。マッコイ自身の演奏
は特に変わったことをしているわけではないけれどマッコイ自身が楽しんでいるのが伝わ
ってくる。なお付属のDVDには各ギタリストとのレコーディングの模様が１曲づつマルチ
アングルで収録されていてこちらも楽しめる。

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katarin

さすがである。

Reviewed in Japan on January 5, 2009

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マッコイと、Ｊ・ディジョネット、Ｒ・カーターとくればどんなハードなプレイでもＯＫではあるが、今回は気心の知れたリズムセクションにギターを乗っけた企画である。Ｍ・リボ、Ｊ・スコフィールド、Ｂ・フレック（バンジョー）、Ｄ・フレック、Ｂ・フリーゼルのうち、おじさんは、ジョンスコとＢ・フリーゼルしか知らなかったし、ジョンスコはともかく、Ｂ・フリーゼルのアルバムだって１枚もない。他のメンバーは全く知らない世代ではあるが、たいへん興味深く聴いた。元々いろいろな楽器を取り入れてきたマッコイであるから、バンジョーでもすんなりと彼の風景になじむのである。それも、それぞれのプレーヤーがたいへん個性的なプレイであるからだ。そして、マッコイは、出会いを楽しむかのようなけれん味のないプレイを繰り広げる。
付属のＤＶＤも興味深かった。Ｅ・アレキサンダーの近作もそうであったが、この手の企画は今後流行ればいいと思う。で、たいへん痩せて、昔を知るものにとっては「癌か何かでこんなに痩せたの〜？」というほど痩せたせいで、年取って見えるマッコイではあるが、そんなに力一杯のプレイでなくともあんなにダイナミックな音を響かせるから不思議。反対にジョンスコの貫禄やいかに（彼ももうベテランですな）。Ｄ・フレックが「グリーンスリーブス」を弾くマッコイの手元を真剣に見つめるまなざしには、ベテランに対する畏敬の念が見て取れて、たいへん気持ちがよかった。
とにかく、観て、聴いて楽しめる作品である。

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Jan Eberlein

Alt aber hemungslos...

Reviewed in Germany on July 7, 2009

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Er ist zwar nicht mehr der Jüngste, aber er schlägt jeden in den Bann seines umwerfendes Spiel.

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