VOL № C38 — July 2020
Sahara
McCoy Tyner
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McCoy Tyner had long experimented with non-Western modalities alongside John Coltrane, pushing through the suddenly archaic norms of bop and swing. Left to his own devices, though, he spent the late ‘60s and early ‘70s — a commercial low point in his career, during which he spent his days working at a shipping center and debated dropping music altogether to drive a cab — circling ever closer to a new vision of pan-African-inflected post-bop that would eventually wind up realized on 1972’s Sahara. Only with that album, which was nominated for two Grammys and stayed on the Billboard jazz charts for months, was Tyner’s critical and commercial relevance ultimately revived.
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 \Ebony Queen\ \\ |
| 2 \Doa Untuk Keluargaku\ \\ |
| 3 \Lembah Kehidupan\ \\ |
| 4 \Kelahiran Kembali\ \\ |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Sahara |
