Numbered Limited Edition of 2,000 Copies! Named Album of the Year by the 1972 DownBeat Critics Poll McCoy Tyner's Sahara is a seminal jazz record in more ways than one. Regrouped with a new band featuring reedist Sonny Fortune, bassist Calvin Hill, and drummer Alphonse Mouzon,DownBeat took notice of Tyner's work and collectively named Sahara the Record of the Year. The badge fit. Treating the session as a coming-out party, Mouzon rides the drums and cymbals like a jockey while Fortune perfectly plays the role of unselfish foil. But it's Tyner's clustered chords and spry two-handed fills that make Sahara a must-have. [...more...]
REMASTERED (20 BIT PRESSING) " Digipack, 20-bitowy remastering Hi Fi i Muzyka 09/2000 (fragment artykułu: ""Nowy wiek - nowy jazz?"") '. . . Kim jest Tyner, wiadomo. Był przez kilka lat jednym z filarów jednego z najważniejszych zespołów [...]
... " Looking for something "different?" Then EXPERIENCE the 23-minute title track, which has reedman, Sonny Fortune playing flute, bassist Calvin Hill playing reeds, and drummer Alphonse Mouzon employing a variety of percussion effects. If all this [...]