McCoy Tyner - Trident (1975 Japanese Milestone Stereo LP)

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McCoy Tyner - Trident | Vinyl LP - 1975 Japanese Milestone Stereo (SMJ-6113, Victor Musical Industries, Inc.)

McCoy Tyner had been recording for Milestone since 1972 at a pace of roughly two albums a year. By February 1975 he had eight Milestone records to his name. Most used larger ensembles. This one pulled the format back to a trio and brought in two musicians whose playing Tyner knew from the inside: Ron Carter from countless shared New York sessions, and Elvin Jones from the Coltrane Quartet, where Tyner had worked alongside both through the early 1960s.

The album opens with "Celestial Chant," Tyner moving between piano and harpsichord across seven minutes, the two keyboard timbres used to extend the piece's harmonic range rather than as a novelty. "Once I Loved" is Jobim's "O Amor em Paz," the English words by Ray Gilbert, Vinicius de Moraes having written the original Portuguese text; Tyner plays it on piano and celeste, both instruments handled simultaneously, the piece sustained for nearly eight minutes. "Elvin (Sir) Jones" is a dedication that takes the tempo down enough for the drummer to be heard clearly without rush.

Side B opens with "Land of the Lonely" and is the most compositionally ambitious piece on the record. "Impressions" is Coltrane's, the modal piece from the Live at the Village Vanguard period, played here in five minutes at a pace that compresses the original's more spacious treatment. "Ruby, My Dear" closes the album, Monk's 1947 ballad given a reading that Tyner said reflected how he had always heard it internally.