The Real McCoy

Released: 1967
Recorded: April 21, 1967
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Length: 37:06
Label: Blue Note
Producer: Alfred Lion

Musicians
McCoy Tyner: piano
Joe Henderson: tenor saxophone
Ron Carter: bass
Elvin Jones: drums

Songs
“Passion Dance” – 8:47 (Tyner)
“Contemplation” – 9:12 (Tyner)
“Four by Five” – 6:37 (Tyner)
“Search for Peace” – 6:32 (Tyner)
“Blues on the Corner” – 5:58 (Tyner)

Additional Album Facts: In the liner notes, McCoy talks about the pieces selected for this album. The titles for “Passion Dance” and “Contemplation” came to the pianist only after he’d written the pieces. Whilst the former sounds like “a kind of American Indian dance, evoking trance-like states”, the latter has “the sound of a man alone. A man reflecting on what religion means to him, reflecting on the meaning of life.” Tyner titled the fourth piece “Search for Peace” because of its tranquil feeling; it “has to do with a man’s submission to God” and the “giving over of the self to the universe”. The album closes with an upbeat, merry piece called “Blues on the Corner”, a reminiscent musical portrait of Tyner’s childhood: “When I was growing up in Philadelphia, some of the kids I knew liked to hang out on the corner […] youngsters talking, kidding around, jiving.

Categories 1960s
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