Horizon (McCoy Tyner album) explained

Horizon
Type:	Album
Artist:	McCoy Tyner
Cover:	Horizon (McCoy Tyner album).jpg
Released:	1980
Recorded:	April 24 & 25, 1979
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:11 (original LP)
Label:	Milestone
Producer:	Orrin Keepnews
Prev Title:	Together
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Quartets 4 X 4
Next Year:	1980

Horizon is an album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.^[1] It was released in 1979 on the Milestone label. It was recorded in April 1979 and features performances by Tyner with alto saxophonist Joe Ford, tenor saxophonist George Adams, violinist John Blake, bassist Charles Fambrough, drummer Al Foster and percussionist Guilherme Franco.

Reception

The San Francisco Examiner called the album "perhaps Tyner's most brilliant recording, from a technical standpoint."^[2]

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by McCoy Tyner except where noted

1. "Horizon" - 12:01
2. "Woman of Tomorrow" (Blake) - 7:41
3. "Motherland" (Blake) 7:17
4. "One for Honor" (Fambrough) - 4:29
5. "Just Feelin'" - 7:44
6. "Horizon" [alternate take] - 11:46 Bonus track on 2007 reissue

Personnel

• McCoy Tyner – piano
• Joe Ford – alto saxophone (track 3), soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
• George Adams – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
• John Blake – violin (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
• Charles Fambrough – bass
• Al Foster – drums
• Guilherme Franco – congas (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)

Notes and References

1. Book: Nicholson . Stuart . Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address) . 2014 . Taylor & Francis.
2. News: Silvert . Conrad . A Wild Exploration . San Francisco Examiner . 25 May 1980 . 43.
3. Nastos, M. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1208867|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed February 25, 2009.