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No, not another jazz nostalgia thread: the enja 2014 SHM-CD of this 1991 recording of the McCoy Tyner trio with Avery Sharpe on bass and Aaron Scott on drums. I just wanted to mention that the sound is exemplary even by recent SHM-CD standards: as good or better than any stereo SACD disc I own. Oh, and this is one of the great jazz trio performances of all time. It is amazing to me that a trio could even approach "India".Actually I now have two great trio performances by Tyner in exemplary Japanese pressings. The 2016 Impulse re-issue of "McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington" with Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones in 1964 may be even better.
This is doubly relevant to me right now because I'm finally retiring my turntable and updating my jazz collection to accommodate a shift in taste from bop to post-bop. Any other hidden gems out there? I have all of the usual suspects, but with 74 titles to his credit I'm not looking to buy every McCoy Tyner disc.
Edits: 07/24/17Follow Ups:
Good to see you- Jim.
I started , as I always do regarding Jazz artists, at the beginning of Tyner's catalog. Certainly the 60's titles. The 70's were hit-and-miss.
Not sure about any 80's gems? A few of the 90's to early 2000's.
Today and Tomorrow (with Thad Jones, Frank Strozier, John Gilmore, Jimmy Garrison/Butch Warren and Elvin Jones).Expansions (with Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits)
Extensions (with Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones and Alice Coltrane on a couple tracks)
Edits: 07/24/17
Thanks Rick. I checked samples on allmusic and bought the only new copy I could find of "Expansions" - a fairly recent (now sold out) SHM-CD which appears to be the only issue on CD since 1998. "Today and Tomorrow" I have, "Extensions" I wasn't overly impressed with (in samples). I think I now have 24 of his albums, about one third of his total discography. Probably enough.
Tyner's 1960's releases are paramount- Jim.
You could say the same of Bill Evans, although the older Evans hit his stride in the early 60s while Tyner did perhaps his best work in the mid 60s, toward the end of his time with the John Coltrane Quartet and just after. But both of them had a tendency to stray and circle back, and Tyner with his long career and life has had more opportunity to do this. But this circling back seems to me to be characteristic of post-bop, which was always tending to collapse forward into free jazz or fusion or back into hard bop or overly subtle harmonic modulations in ballads and blues.
Of course in Tyner's case both his weakness and strength is his enduring dependence on John Coltrane. So, while I might agree that "McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington" (1964) or "The Real McCoy" (1967) represent Tyner at his best, so does "Remembering John" (1991). The question for me, to put it in the starkest terms, is whether there is more to post-bop than the terrain that the Quartet traversed so effortlessly.
Bill Evans did his best work in the 50's and 60's no question about it.
His 70's output was hit and miss.
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I've never bought a SHM-CD, because every one I've heard that had been purchased by friends sounded hard and glaring to me. And, no, it's not my system, which has never been prone to those characteristics.
Whatever. My system is by design very much on the clinical side and these discs exhibit none of these characteristics: at least to my ears, in my room. The SHM process itself contributes very little to the sound, but I've certainly heard some very bad Japanese mastering: try any recent Venus SACD.
I have several SHM discs, 2 CDs and a few SACDs.
Pricey but Good, but I'm into downloads now,
and I don't want much of what SHM has available.
I rarely play Discs of any kind now.
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