Inception, by Alfred McCoy Tyner (1962).

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A highly challenging blues in C minor, recorded by the great pianist at age 23. It's a virtuoso up-tempo piece, not easy to perform solo, especially. McCoy's contrary chord motion is highly original, as is the concluding harmonic structure, C7+9, -5. -9, which is a de facto Coltrane group sound. The late, great bassist Juini Booth and I discussed this composition many years ago, but we regrettably did not have a chance to perform it.

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I have a continuous cycle of transcriptions underway at any given time; ongoing research and development that has been largely ignored by academics here. As was said in the bebop era, create something that's so challenging that they're unable to copy it.