Horizon (McCoy Tyner album)

Horizon
Studio album by McCoy Tyner
Released	1980
Recorded	April 24 & 25, 1979
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:11 (original LP)
Label	Milestone
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
McCoy Tyner chronology
Together (1978) Horizon (1980) Quartets 4 X 4 (1980)

Horizon is an album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.[1] It was released in 1979 on the Milestone label. It was recorded in April 1979 and features performances by Tyner with alto saxophonist Joe Ford, tenor saxophonist George Adams, violinist John Blake, bassist Charles Fambrough, drummer Al Foster and percussionist Guilherme Franco.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

The San Francisco Examiner called the album "perhaps Tyner's most brilliant recording, from a technical standpoint."[4]

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line. It enables him to offer some of the most remarkable, memorable and powerful music of his career".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by McCoy Tyner except where noted

1. "Horizon" - 12:01
2. "Woman of Tomorrow" (Blake) - 7:41
3. "Motherland" (Blake) 7:17
4. "One for Honor" (Fambrough) - 4:29
5. "Just Feelin'" - 7:44
6. "Horizon" [alternate take] - 11:46 Bonus track on 2007 reissue

Personnel

• McCoy Tyner – piano
• Joe Ford – alto saxophone (track 3), soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
• George Adams – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6), flute (track 2)
• John Blake – violin (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
• Charles Fambrough – bass
• Al Foster – drums
• Guilherme Franco – congas (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)

References

1. Nicholson, Stuart (2014). Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address). Taylor & Francis.
2. Nastos, M. AllMusic Review accessed February 25, 2009.
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 196. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Silvert, Conrad (25 May 1980). "A Wild Exploration". San Francisco Examiner. p. 43.