Blue Bossa

McCoy Tyner has had an illustrious career. From working as a sidemen on  John Coltrane's A Love Supreme to his classic jazz albums as a frontman such as The Real McCoy.Today I would like to talk about one of his lesser known albums which I thoroughly enjoyed, Blue Bossa. With McCoy Tyner on piano as the frontman, Avery Sharpe on bass, Aaron Scott on drums, Raphael Cruz on percussion, and Claudio Roditi on trumpet and flugelhorn, this album has residuum. It has the musicians McCoy Tyner is comfy with and a invitee artist in Roditi. McCoy Tyner has an overwhelming amount of quality albums, merely if you give information technology an opportunity you will detect value and delight in listening to Blue Bossa.

The anthology begins with the title rails "Blue Bossa" and wow what free energy. The track begins with Raphael Cruz on percussions and then McCoy Tyner creates an intro which leads to the melody played past Roditi. The rails, which is a standard written by Kenny Dorham, has beautiful rhythm thank you to Cruz and the solos keep this tempo and groove going. McCoy is a principal of penatonic and be bop lines and this solo, and this album, are a prime instance of that. He gives you all he has and makes information technology incommunicable to not dance in your seat while listening to his solo. Roditi keeps the free energy going and adds his ain style to the melody, merely my favorite solo on this track is definitely Avery Sharpe's solo on bass. He just plays with these deep low sounds and rhythmically amazing lines. They groove on the song for a bit then lead back to the melody and so fade out.

The adjacent record is titled "Recife's Blues" and is written past Roditi himself.  The rails begins with a funky groove and a interesting intro by McCoy, it all comes together nicely when Roditi comes in with the melody. This song only apartment out grooves, information technology reminds me of  New Orleans Jazz. McCoy is pro on this one, his solo is beautiful, circuitous, rhythmic, and has a blues feel to it throughout. Roditi solos next and keeps the New Orleans Jazz feel throughout his solo, he keeps the party going. Subsequently his solo some trading goes on betwixt the drummer Aaron Scott, and Roditi which leads into the melody and concludes the rails.

"I"ll Accept Romance" is next and contains McCoy Tyner playing the melody which is a overnice change of pace since, so far, that has been Roditi's responsibility. This waltz is played beautifully by McCoy peachy inflection during the melody and an astonishing solo besides. After McCoy solos Sharpe has another fantastic solo on bass, every time he solos it's an absolute delight and this is coming from a person who isn't e'er begging for a bass solo. Missing from this melody is Roditi, merely and I don't hateful this disrespectfully, he is non missed. This trio has played together before so, they experience very comfortable playing together and information technology shows making "I'll Take Romance" a highlight on this album.

McCoy Tyner's own "Rotunda" follows and once once more Roditi is absent, but not missed. McCoy really shines on this runway which should be to no one's surprise since he wrote information technology. He plays the melody, plays a long solo, and orchestrates cute chords to fade out the tune. Post-obit "Rotunda" we have "Nosotros Will Be Together" which is a cute ballad and brings Roditi back into the album. A central aspect to this tune is the interaction between the rhythm section and the solists. This is of import because ballads tin begin to audio boring when played without interaction. The album concludes with "The Natural Span" and "Traces".  "Traces" is a prissy way to end the anthology giving us some more latin music to conclude the anthology with, which is important since the album is titled Blueish Bossa.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this album I feel information technology is often overlooked mainly because it is not one of the summit v or fifty-fifty top x albums McCoy has worked on. This however, speaks more about how accomplished McCoy is then how skilful this album is. Despite it not beingness ane of McCoy'due south greatest works listening to McCoy Tyner's Blue Bossa will be an enjoyable experience to fans of Jazz, Bossa Nova's, and music in full general.