McCoy Tyner Group
McCoy Tyner- piano
Azar Lawrence- sax
Alex Blake- bass
Billy Hart- drums
Jazz Workshop
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
December 11, 1973
(McCoy's 35th birthday concert)
performance quality: A
recording quality: B to B+ (some static in parts,
but not the real loud kind)
source: FM broadcast master reel
lineage: WBCN FM radio > Neil Cronin master reel > CD >
my CD > CD extractor >
FLAC 6 > Torrentially yours.
runtime: 81:24
setlist:
1: radio announcer presents a birthday cake to McCoy Tyner 1:32
2: inner glimpse 26:36
3: piano solo 8:32
4: song of the new world 42:19
5: band introductions :32
6: radio announcer closing comments 1:51
comments:
Jazz Workshop sets were typically done two a night, and when
McCoy Tyner played at the Jazz Workshop, later Paul's Mall and
Lulu White's, it was for a 3 or 4 night run. I don't know if
this was the 1st or 2nd set, although WBCN usually broadcasted
first sets to encourage folks to go out and see the late show.
This was McCoy's tour of his album "Song of the New World", and a
time when Tyner released a nice string of albums that late
included "Sama Layuca" and "Focal Point".
this is one of a few shows kindly shared by taperpat with me
for sharing on dime. This show has been posted before, either
from a slightly higher lineage tape or possibly a different
source tape. this recording isn't perfect (few are from WBCN
in these days, their signal wasn't very strong yet.) but it
sounds pretty good, the other McCoy show from taperpat has been
posted (1976 Chicago), also from an FM reel, this one hasn't
been yet, until now. It got delayed, partly due to a day
without power, and two with no internet because an ice covered
tree branch wiped out my connection line, but not as bad as for
folks to my north and west, and not nearly as long a delay as I
went through a year ago with an upload. It wound up about a week
delay, but a McCoy show from 73 is a nice way to get into the
spirit of ChanuChristmas. There's always Chanukah and Christmas,
but not always an eclipse of the two holidays. There is no such
official holiday of "Chanuchristmas", which does not come every year.
I'm declaring it a real holiday, in addition to (NOT instead of)
the existing holidays. This is a holiday of Catholic and Jewish
(and any other Christmas celebrating faith) harmonic convergence,
and that's a good thing. Sunday, Dec. 21 is the 1st night of Chanukah
(all Jewish faith holidays begin and end at sundown) and 4 days after
that is the traditionally observed Christmas Day. ChanuChristmas is
not quite as rare as a total solar eclipse, it just seems that way.
Every Chanukah and Christmas is a real holiday, but ChanuChristmas
is the Real McCoy, so this will help usher in the spirit of the season.
If you want to put this on one (80 min.) CD, you can do it by leaving
out the last track, or the 1st one (both are just radio announcer
talk, track one has a couple of brief tune up notes from McCoy before
the 1st song starts). I can't be sure the setlist is complete, but I
believe the recording is the full first set.
Do not sell this recording.
(but feel free to give it to someone for ChanuChristmas!)
Trade freely and losslessly.