Tender Moments (Tone Poet Vinyl Series)

Tender Moments (Tone Poet Vinyl Series)On his second Blue Note album Tender Moments, pianist and composer McCoy Tyner explored the colors and textures available in a nonet setting with some of the finest musicians of the time: Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Bob Northern on French horn, Howard Johnson on tuba, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. Highlights of the session include

Hilary Taylor

On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history – the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine

19 received positive reviews from music critics

memory and amnesia

and the end of the free love/hippie movement

and is supplemented by a selection from the museum’s historical collection of clothing from the 18th and 19th centuries

Art Spiegelman

becomes a not-always-perfect shelter from hardship

wood boards

the complete absence on these shores of neo-trad anything

enigmatic symbols and other-worldly shapes

"It's hard to call Era Vulgaris stripped-down -- there's too much color in the guitar