{"id":11478,"date":"2020-03-12T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11478"},"modified":"2020-03-13T00:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:47:15","slug":"mccoy-tyner-quartet-live-performing-walk-spirit-talk-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11478","title":{"rendered":"McCoy Tyner Quartet live performing &#8220;Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kevin Lynch\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/large-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11478\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11478\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div><p>Blog friends<\/p>\n<p>I recently posted an obit tribute to the recently departed piano giant McCoy Tyner but with no live links. Today, I came across this extended performance of his quartet doing &#8220;Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit,&#8221; first documented on the live album <em>Enlightenment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Buckle up. It&#8217;s a major performance and worth your while to get a sense of Tyner in his astonishing prime. Tyner on piano, Azar Lawrence on saxophone, Juney Booth on bass and Alphonse Mouzon on drums. Recorded at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival.\u00a0 <em>Courtesy the Jazz Video Guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnQJsrUYb8Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the theme of &#8220;Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit&#8221; took over my backdrop today, having played this whole video through a handful of times, something registered with me. Tyner, in such work, doesn&#8217;t abide by the bebop or Tin Pan Alley requisites of chord changes per a certain amount of bars, despite the theme&#8217;s very slight modal modulations. This aesthetic eschews a melody&#8217;s urge to engage a more harmonic story. He&#8217;s doing his thought-diving into deep and even primal waters. He&#8217;s striving, in his theme&#8217;s repetition,for the power of the incantatory, something very old, profound and timeless in music, as deeply explored by Ted Gioia in his extraordinary new book, <em>Music, A Subversive History.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope to offer more on that book in the near future. Meanwhile, keep McCoy in your thoughts and speakers and earbuds. You <span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">might be surprised how much he can do<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">for your tattered spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog friends I recently posted an obit tribute to the recently departed piano giant McCoy Tyner but with no live links. 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