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When everybody starts naming the world's greatest pianists you always get the usual roll call: Ashkenazy, Serkin, Gilels, you know, the classical people. But how about this nomination: McCoy Tyner? After all, why must we always call Tyner one of the world's greatest living jazz musicians. For that matter why can't that roll call read Tyner, Monk, and Taylor...
Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop are showing why the Rise Club will soon be the number one place to see jazz in Cambridge. The Mall has Melba Moore, who sounds okay, not great, on her new album "Melba," produced by none other than disco Van McCoy. Speaking of disco, the Jazz workship has Dexter Wansel in this weekend. Wansel is right out of The Sound of Philadelphia studios, and carries with him the high recommendation of Ken Camble, of Camble and Huff fame (the O'Jays). The strange thing about this Philly International date is that Jean Carn...
Speaking of focal points, McCoy Tyner's new album, "Focal Point," is just one terrific performance by Tyner. The release, cut this summer, but just now making it to the shelves at the Coop, is devoid of the heavy string section that made "Fly With the Wind" such a hit. This record is much more on line with the pulsating sounds of Trident. The most popular cut, at least for the disc jockeys, has been "indo Serenade," with its clearly defined melody and beautiful romantic piano work by Tyner. But the other numbers, including "Mes Trois Fils" and "Mode...
...Friday trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, flutist Hubert Laws and pianist McCoy Tyner move in. Hubbard dazzled Harvard crowds last year when he coached music and stood up President Bok in The Learning for Performers Series. Hubbard has not progressed as much as hoped for from the time he broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite...
...memorial service at the Ullrey Memorial Chapel for Rachel Carlson, 16. At 11 a.m. she went to the First Methodist Church for a service in memory of Maria Azim, 15. At 5 p.m. she attended a memorial service at the Chapel of the Twin Cities for Jodi Lynn McCoy...