As the first album that McCoy Tyner made after splitting with Coltrane’s freer work in the mid-60s, lovers of that late-phase Coltrane material could see The Real McCoy at the very least as a comfortable revisiting of bop playing and composing. But I also can’t go by that piano solo on ‘Passion Dance’ for it’s incredible cluster chords and out of this world left hand syncopation—that’s the Real McCoy!
-Mitch
-Mitch