Friday, 20 February 2009

McCoy Tyner : La Leyenda de la Hora


McCoy Tyner; La Leyenda de la Hora (The Legend of the Hour)
Recorded at Rudy van Gelder Studios, CBS, 1981.

La Vida Feliz (The Happy Life)
Ja'cara (A Serenade)
La Habana Sol (The Havana Sun)
Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit
La Busca (The Search)

A truly awesome album, hidden behind yet another truly dreadful cover. Carin Goldberg, hang your head in shame! Tucked away in that sleeve, comes an info/picture insert showing McCoy looking pretty chuffed with his light summer suit he must have picked up from Mantilla's tailor.

A top notch line-up that includes Bobby Hutcherson, Hubert Laws, Marcus Belgrave and Chico Freeman. All five tracks are damn fine, with La vida Feliz and Walk Spirit/Talk Spirit being the stand outs.



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14 comments:

  1. katonah20 February 2009 at 09:37

    http://www.mediafire.com/?yokn3yv1myq

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  2. flageolette20 February 2009 at 09:50

    Thanks Katonah,
    Great Post
    Linked Yours,

    Cheers,

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  3. blackclassical20 February 2009 at 09:53

    Finally fished the decorating ill mail you over the weekend as i think i owe you a few responses... Sorry! off for a few sherberts now... Anyway oh yeah... La Habana Sol Snowboy used to cane that one...

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  4. orleyfarm20 February 2009 at 15:18

    Looks great! Thanks so much.

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  5. Simon66620 February 2009 at 16:08

    Really nice album Katonah, lots in there hey ? Some latin breaks, bits of strings, and what a lineup!

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  6. Bacoso21 February 2009 at 02:53

    that suits not from mantilla's tailor its from Debenhams.

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  7. DW21 February 2009 at 11:17

    Thanks! Good, no, great Tyner.

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  8. Art Simon21 February 2009 at 22:09

    Whoa, this is completely unknown to me, and I'm a big McCoy Tyner fan. Awesome! Thanks so much!

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  9. taro nombei22 February 2009 at 09:59

    Top drop. thanks as always Katonah!
    TN

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  10. g.raf23 February 2009 at 14:06

    Thanks Katonah.
    I really enjoyed this.

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  11. plato24 February 2009 at 15:28

    Obrigado. Gracias. Danke.
    Спасибо. Ευχαριστώ. धन्यवाद.
    ありがとう. ขอบคุณ. 谢谢.

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  12. George1 March 2009 at 09:27

    Nice album.

    Here is the official list of participating musicians.

    Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); William Fischer (conductor); Paquito D'Rivera (soprano & alto saxophones); Chico Freeman (tenor saxophone); Marcus Belgrave (trumpet, flugelhorn); Hubert Laws (flute); Harold Kohan, John Blake, Karen Milne, Elliot Rosoff (violin); Jesse Levine, Julien Barber (viola); Kermit Moore, Jonathan Abramowitz (cello); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone, marimba); Avery Sharpe (acoustic bass); Ignacio Berroa (drums); Daniel Ponce (percussion).

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  13. fritz the cat26 April 2009 at 12:33

    thanks. looking forward to this.

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  14. Erberken25 October 2013 at 07:20

    Can you reup this please? I can't find this anywhere.

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