"Echoes with a friend" / réalisation, Samuel Thiebaut.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Taborn, Craig, instrumentalist.

Allen, Geri, instrumentalist.

Thiebaut, Samuel, film director.

McCoy Tyner Trio, instrumentalist.

Herisson TV, production company.

Boulevard de la Prod (Firm), production company.

Oléo Films, production company.

ARTE France, production company.

Qwest TV, publisher.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Jazz--2011-2020.

Jazz.

Genre:

Concert films.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2016.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

McCoy Tyner began studying the piano at 13 while growing up in West Philadelphia. His mother, a beautician, loved its sound but never had formal lessons. She noticed that her son was also captivated by the instrument and would buy him his first piano. She put it inside her beauty parlor because it couldn't fit in the house, and he regularly practiced for customers and neighbors like his hero Bud Powell, who noticed Tyner's immense talent and would often stop by to perform. Another Philly local, John Coltrane, heard those jam sessions walking past his mother's shop and soon invited Tyner to join his band alongside Elvin Jones on drums and bassist Jimmy Garrison. Coltrane's quartet is not only one of the most seminal groups in music, but Tyner, as its lone surviving member (until his passing in 2020), remains an innovator of the instrument, renowned for his intense left-hand style and vast melodic range. "McCoy Tyner is the reason I play piano," says Craig Taborn with much deference to the maestro at the 2016 Jazz à la Villette festival in Paris. The evening's program aptly paraphrases the 1972 release Echoes of a Friend, as it is a gathering among friends and colleagues to perform selections from Tyner's immense oeuvre. As Taborn kicks things off with "Hope" and "Celestial Chant," he later introduces the late Geri Allen, an underrated giant of jazz piano and fellow pupil of trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. Allen tackles "Peresina" and "You Taught My Heart to Sing" with equal zeal, precision, and whimsy before bringing out Tyner himself to round out the evening with his stalwart trio, Gerald Cannon on bass and percussionist Francisco Mela. It is "straight-ahead, no chaser" at its finest, where everyone keeps their words at a minimum, allowing their instruments to speak for them instead. Shannon J. Effinger (Shannon Ali).

Contents:

Hope

Celestial chant

Peresina

You taught my heart to sing

Fly with the wind

Blues on the corner.

Participant:

Geri Allen, piano ; Craig Taborn, piano ; McCoy Tyner Trio (McCoy Tyner, piano ; Gerald Cannon, double bass ; Francisco Mela, drums).

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed July 03, 2025).

Recorded live Philharmonie de Paris September 11, 2016.

OCLC:

1535939216