Pretty sure that "the records he made with Max Roach and Ray Brown" - is someone's typo from somewhere along the line.. Clifford Brown not Ray Brown, would make sense.
I was always intrigued by how *far away* from the Coltrane Quartet sound the early McCoy records on Impulse sound: – for every slightly reminiscent modal vamp tune like say Contemporary Focus – there are lashings of standards and such swinging straight-ahead playing. Nights of Ballads and Blues for instance is an unashamedly pretty record with lots of soul
Ah but wait . Tyner is talking late 40's here right? So maybe yes, Ray Brown.
But there was really only the one session [4 tunes?] - so when McCoy says “Judging from the records he made with Max Roach and Ray Brown, I think he had reached his prime then” - he would be meaning just those two 78's [4 tunes] that came out in 1949/1950 ?
“Bud Powell recorded only a few sides with Roach and Brown. Those 1949 sessions, Powell’s first as a leader..” - the sides many of us know from Bud Powell's 'Jazz Giant' LP on Verve right?
possibly Tyner was referring to the quartet version of Ascension from Salle Pleyel 28/7/65, though of course that recording would only come out as a bootleg.
Pretty sure that "the records he made with Max Roach and Ray Brown" - is someone's typo from somewhere along the line.. Clifford Brown not Ray Brown, would make sense.
I was always intrigued by how *far away* from the Coltrane Quartet sound the early McCoy records on Impulse sound: – for every slightly reminiscent modal vamp tune like say Contemporary Focus – there are lashings of standards and such swinging straight-ahead playing. Nights of Ballads and Blues for instance is an unashamedly pretty record with lots of soul
Ah but wait . Tyner is talking late 40's here right? So maybe yes, Ray Brown.
But there was really only the one session [4 tunes?] - so when McCoy says “Judging from the records he made with Max Roach and Ray Brown, I think he had reached his prime then” - he would be meaning just those two 78's [4 tunes] that came out in 1949/1950 ?
“Bud Powell recorded only a few sides with Roach and Brown. Those 1949 sessions, Powell’s first as a leader..” - the sides many of us know from Bud Powell's 'Jazz Giant' LP on Verve right?
Confusing myself, in public. Again.
possibly Tyner was referring to the quartet version of Ascension from Salle Pleyel 28/7/65, though of course that recording would only come out as a bootleg.