Horizon (McCoy Tyner album)
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Reception
Template:Music ratings The San Francisco Examiner called the album "perhaps Tyner's most brilliant recording, from a technical standpoint."[2]
The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by McCoy Tyner except where noted
- "Horizon" - 12:01
- "Woman of Tomorrow" (Blake) - 7:41
- "Motherland" (Blake) 7:17
- "One for Honor" (Fambrough) - 4:29
- "Just Feelin'" - 7:44
- "Horizon" [alternate take] - 11:46 Bonus track on 2007 reissue
Personnel
- McCoy Tyner – piano
- Joe Ford – alto saxophone (track 3), soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
- George Adams – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
- John Blake – violin (tracks 1–3, 5 & 6)
- Charles Fambrough – bass
- Al Foster – drums
- Guilherme Franco – congas (tracks 1–3, 5 & 6)
References
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- ↑ Nastos, M. AllMusic Review accessed February 25, 2009.
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