Appearing on New York's WNET channel 13, "SOUL!" w/ Ellis Haizlip air date December 29, 1971 McCoy Tyner Quartet Sonny Fortune - sax Alphonse Mouzon - drums Calvin Hill - bass McCoy Tyner - piano
I discovered this era of Tyner, Fortune and Mouzon when I DJ'd at my college radio station (KSMC). I had always been a jazz fan, but this music from McCoy Tyner showed me that jazz towered above the best progressive rock artists of the 1960s and 70s and the distance was not even close.
RIP, McCoy. You were the perfect balance to fusion, and pretty much the end of my listening to rock. Intense, and yet, acoustic. Demanding. You gave your drummers such a work out. I always liked that.
Man, love those Psychedelic colors, lighting, clothes and of course the great music. Alphose Mouzon's groove/swing driving this joint to the next level, bass player Calvin Hill great too and Sonny and McCoy soaring over it all.
Santamaria... Alphonso is a real drum's killer, he can easily overdo, his energy is not normal. What a great musician he is, hey !!! well, the whole quartet is "outstanding", bravoooooooaaaaah !!! 1971 ??? goddamn, that's real avant-guard, hey ! lovely, this is orgasmic music, all god's music.
This is some of the most artistic music i have ever heard, Alphonse Mouson's Drumming is second too none, combined with Tyner this band is on the level of Weather Report and Brand X and Mahavishnu.. Four Exceptional musicians..!
Thanks a million alphonse. You played your butt off on this video and still do. Spoke to you quite a bit at the 2015 NAMM Show Canopus artist dinner in Anaheim.
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Don't know Sonny and Calvin, but I'm now a fan. McCoy is a monster as always, one of the greats, and Mouzon shows off his space alien DNA, drumming like a MoFo.
dolphytone I was blessed to see the great Sonny Fortune for the 2nd time- last month at the 34th annual jazz festival in Savannah, Ga. He remains a live inspiration & serious listeners of the music know indeed who he is.
MOUZON at 1:06 misses his cymbal. when I saw him in early 72 he must have dropped a stick every few minutes, but it didnt affect the flow whatsoever. Some of the greatest drumming I ever heard.
