{"id":3853,"date":"2012-07-21T00:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T07:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:50:11","slug":"weekend-extra-standard-mccoy-tyner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/07\/weekend-extra-standard-mccoy-tyner\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Standard McCoy Tyner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/McCoy-Tyner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/McCoy-Tyner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"McCoy Tyner\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/McCoy-Tyner.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/McCoy-Tyner-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/McCoy-Tyner-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>For all of the excitement with modes that McCoy Tyner generated with John Coltrane and still achieves in long his post-Coltrane career, I have always been partial to Tyner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way with standard songs and jazz originals with standard changes in albums like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nights-Ballads-Blues-Mccoy-Tyner\/dp\/B000003N9K\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=mccoy%20tyner%20nights%20of%20ballads%20and%20blues&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1342852770&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Things-Aint-What-They-Used\/dp\/B000005HFS\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=McCoy%20Tyner&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1342853033&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-40&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That aspect of his playing is brilliant in this video from the 1987 Mount Fuji Festival in Japan. Ron Carter is the bassist, Joe Chambers the drummer.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Q7twUS3LCI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Ethan Iverson featured that video recently in his <a href=\"http:\/\/dothemath.typepad.com\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Do The Math<\/em><\/a> blog. Jim Harrod, moderator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/launch.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/JazzWestCoast\/\"target=\"_blank\">Jazz West Coast<\/a> listserve, found it through Ethan. I found it through Jim. Thanks, guys. Networking works.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend, everyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of the excitement with modes that McCoy Tyner generated with John Coltrane and still achieves in long his post-Coltrane career, I have always been partial to Tyner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way with standard songs and jazz originals with standard changes in albums like this and this. That aspect of his playing is brilliant in this video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}