Mccoy Tyner | AFRO BLUE | CD

Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); McCoy Tyner; Dave Valentin (flute); Claudio Roditi (trumpet, flugelhorn); Steve Turre (trombone); Stanley Clarke (acoustic bass, electric bass, bass guitar); Christian McBride, Charnett Moffett (bass guitar); Ignacio Berroa (drums); Johnny Almendra (timbales); Giovanni Hidalgo (percussion); Gary Bartz (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Eric Harland, Al Foster, Lewis Nash (drums); Latin All Stars.
Recording information: Ambient Recording Studios, Stamford, CT (07/29/1998-11/19/2003); Avatar Studios, New York, NY (07/29/1998-11/19/2003).
Editor: Paul Blakemore.
AFRO BLUE is a compilation album collecting McCoy Tyner's work for the Telarc Label. The work dates from the late 1990s and 2000s, and while the music may lack the ferocity of some of Tyner's classic dates from the '60s and '70s, it doesn't lack for dazzling musicianship and Tyner's inimitable touch. The Latin-tinged numbers ("Blue Bossa;" "Carriba") are standouts, as are the tracks from 2004's ILLUMINATIONS and his sessions with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster.

• Format: CD
• Genre: Pop
• Released: 11/13/2007