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In Reply to: RE: 3 suggestions. posted by fantja on July 26, 2017 at 04:09:56:
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.
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