Jazz legends McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson have been playing together, on record and on the road, for nearly fifty years, so it only made sense for the duo to perform at the recent Blue Note At 75 concert celebrating the classic jazz label’s storied history. Tyner will always be known best for his work with John Coltrane’s classic 1960′s quartet and their work on Impulse Records, but his mid to late 1960′s output on Blue Note was spectacular in it’s own right.
Hutcherson, on the other hand, will always be associated with the label under which he did a number of groundbreaking recordings, from his earliest “new thing” LPs in the mid-1960′s right through his more soulful work (much with saxophonist Harold Land) in the 1970′s, which includes the much-sampled tracks “Ummh” and “Montara” (below).
It is great to see both the jazz luminaries, who were so important to the genre, still in top form in their performance of “African Village” from Tyner’s 1968 Blue Note album Time For Tyner which featured Hutcherson on vibraphone. Watch it below.
