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While Tyner's work during the 1970s tends to attract polarised opinion, this 1972 disc, which was his first LP after leaving Blue Note, deserves in its own way to be considered alongside Miles Davis's even more controversial espousal of electro-pop just a few years later. The opening track "Ebony Queen", dedicated to Tyner's wife, is a prescient fusion track in all but name, while the third, "Valley of Life", sees Tyner playing the koto in a furious but unerringly precise manner (in sharp contrast to the incompetent noodlings on exotic instruments which were to plague jazz for the following 25more… years). That said, Tyner achieves all this without his forgetting his avant-bop birthright. This is one of those discs which occupies a key nodal point in the development of the music, with links to all that had gone before as well as to the rock and world music influences which were to come. While the recording quality is slightly fuzzy, the power of the music is undiminished. --Roger Thomas

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Music > Albums

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CD

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Retail

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Title:

McCoy Tyner - Sahara (2006) Retail CD

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Front

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997 x 992 px

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