McCoy Tyner - Berliner Jazztage (full concert, live 1974)

McCoy Tyner Quintet
McCoy Tyner - piano
Azar Lawrence - sopran & tenor saxophone
Antonio Guilherme de Souza Franco - percussion
Juny Booth - bass
Wilbert Fletcher - drums

[@KSmall109CAB]

A great live performance. Tyner's ensembles in the early to mid 1970s in some ways remind me of Coltrane's post-A Love Supreme music. There is a great deal of intensity, lots of percussion, and prominent piano as well as saxophone work. This was a great quintet for sure. Nothing like modal jazz mixed with samba! This is the kind of music fusion that lights up the brain cells!

[@jameslanni]

Steady listening to McCoy since '73 or so. I hear this as peak McCoy.

[@KSmall109CAB]

Perhaps. Tyner had been away from the Coltrane quartet for some years and had clearly established a voice of his own. He also had a decent contract with Milestone Records and an understanding producer in Orrin Keepnews. Getting steady gigs across the globe helped as well. In an interesting way it was in the early 1970s that Tyner became what Coltrane was in the 1960s. Tyner surrounded himself with younger musicians as Coltrane did. I think the younger musicians learned from Tyner and vice versa.

[@johnbickham7746]

I remember listening to McCoy in elementary school in the 60's. This recording is around the time period I saw him live. I'm so glad I was introduced to him at an early age. This is phenomenal! Absolutely gorgeous!

[@trumpetboss5483]

Serious exercise to play with McCoy no joke no gym needed

[@JPSmith1123]

Thank You My Friend Juini Booth! A International Music Art Treasure!

[@anthonycfletcher1232]

Love it. Really amazing to see this band in action. A young Wilby Fletcher, Jr. in the drummers chair -Amazing & Legendary in my world.

[@thick_air]

RIP Brother Saud

[@quaichouxdaten8809]

0:08 In a sentimental mood 4:09 Sahara love bossa 18:23 Atlantis

[@RayyMusik]

Isn‘t the 2nd one called ‘Love Samba‘? It‘s on the ‘Atlantis‘ album.

[@brotzmannsax]

Holy Smokes, the Atlantis band smoking! Wonderfully shot with great audio, thanks for sharing. RIP McCoy, it was a long and amazing journey.

[@cdk2968]

Mmmh... really intense and and really hip and really pretty, all at once - great performance!

[@cdk2968]

... and Azar didn't get heat stroke despite wearing a whole sheep in full stage light...

[@daryljohnson3896]

Playing like his very life depended on it!!!

[@thomassmid8763]

These tracks are all on his 1974 double album 'Atlantis', also recorded live (in San Francisco). The first title is called 'Love Samba' there though, not 'Sahara Lobe Bossa'. I believe all the tracks from 'Atlantis' have only ever been recorded in various live performamces, never in the studio.

[@thewordofgord]

Classic! Have Atlantis album from years ago. In a league with this for sure.

[@paulzauner]

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[@maudeday954]

holy mackerel wow!

[@sadredinesmaily8283]

Wonderful performance

[@aboty]

ついにAtlantisのLIVE発見。元気が出る。嬉しい！

[@crownpropeller]

great upload, thanks!

[@zitherbefree]

Fantastic 👏👏👏

[@a-maize-zing]

Those stage lights are cooking him while hes cookin

[@joshcarson3619]

nice sound I got to listen to where did you disappear to? when will you be back in buffalo?

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

Q : As a matter of public interest, what's the difference between a buffalo and a bison??

[@alistairdunnington]

​@@tunefultonyjohnson4100bison big head

[@mariobonsignorejr.4648]

Tyner is impossible.

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

McCoy Tyner just loves hitting the keys as fast as he can muster but the master piano player and composer Duke Ellington prophetically [and truthfully] claimed: "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" ...Think about that for a little ...

[@RogerThunderhandsGilbert]

different kind of swing brother..way over your head!

[@KSmall109CAB]

Maybe different in some ways but McCoy Tyner and others who came after Duke Ellington would not be what they were had it not been for the foundation that Ellington helped lay. Like any art form, what many call jazz is a cumulative experience.

[@KSmall109CAB]

Hard to know what's in another person's head. However, it is safe to say that Tyner's crescendos are as awesome as Ellington's piano genius and the genius of Ellington's band members. If you appreciate great music, you appreciate the greatness of Tyner and Ellington. They both swing, albeit perhaps differently.

[@Pharoahsim]

There are zero rules. Living in the 30's, 40,s, n 50,'s doesn't propel music anywhere. Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Coltrane... they are what jazz is all about. Moving ahead.

[@ZeAlfredo]

@@KSmall109CAB you do know that Mccoy Tyner played in big bands snd his early records were swing records. Did you ever hear his version of Solar? If thst doesn't seing i dont know what is