McCoy Tyner

 Artist:  McCoy Tyner 

Birth Name:  Afred McCoy Tyner

Born:  December 11, 1938.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died:   March 6, 2020 (Aged 81).  New Jersey, USA

Genre:   Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Standards, Piano Jazz, Modal Music, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz, Modern Big Band, Global Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Jazz Instrument

Occupation:   Musician, Composer, Bandleader

Instruments:  Piano

McCoy Tyner was an American Jazz Pianist, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.  He was an NEA Jazz Master and a five-time Grammy Winner.  Not a player of electric Keyboards and Synthesizers,  he was committed to Acoustic Instrumentation.  He was one of the most recognizable and most influential pianists in Jazz History.

Title:  Expansions (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)  (2021)

Genre:   Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Standards, Piano Jazz, Modal Music, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz, Modern Big Band, Global Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Jazz Instrument

Label:  Blue Note Records

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Vision  (12:18)

 2.  Song Of Happiness  (12:00)

Side Two:

 1.  Smitty's Place  (5:21)

 2.  Peresina  (10:21)

 3.  I Thought I'd Let You Know  (6:25)

Personnel:

McCoy Tyner:  Piano

Woody Shaw:  Trumpet

Gary Bartz:  Alto Saxophone, Wooden Flute on Track 2

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet on Track 2

Ron Carter:  Cello

Herbie Lewis:  Bass

Freddie Waits:  Drums on Track 2

Expansions is the tenth album by McCoy Tyner, originally released on June 1970 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on August 6, 2021 by Blue Note Records, featuring Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits.