Horizon (McCoy Tyner album)

Horizon
Studio album by
McCoy Tyner
Released1980
RecordedApril 24 & 25, 1979
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length39:11 (original LP)
LabelMilestone
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
McCoy Tyner chronology
Together
(1978) 		Horizon
(1980) 		Quartets 4 X 4
(1980)

Horizon is an album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.[1] It was released in 1979 on the Milestone label. It was recorded in April 1979 and features performances by Tyner with alto saxophonist Joe Ford, tenor saxophonist George Adams, violinist John Blake, bassist Charles Fambrough, drummer Al Foster and percussionist Guilherme Franco.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

The San Francisco Examiner called the album "perhaps Tyner's most brilliant recording, from a technical standpoint."[4]

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career".[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by McCoy Tyner except where noted

  1. "Horizon" - 12:01
  2. "Woman of Tomorrow" (Blake) - 7:41
  3. "Motherland" (Blake) 7:17
  4. "One for Honor" (Fambrough) - 4:29
  5. "Just Feelin'" - 7:44
  6. "Horizon" [alternate take] - 11:46 Bonus track on 2007 reissue

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Nicholson, Stuart (2014). Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address). Taylor & Francis.
  2. ^ a b Nastos, M. AllMusic Review accessed February 25, 2009.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 196. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Silvert, Conrad (25 May 1980). "A Wild Exploration". San Francisco Examiner. p. 43.
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