McCoy Tyner is my all-time favourite pianist, along with Bill Evans. His insanely bold melodic lines, the deep roaring speedy bass chord progressions, the fierce treatment of the keyboard only to sound emotional, almost graceful – the word dynamic was invented for Mr. Tyner.

This is also the case on ‘Song of the new world’, his fourth album on Milestone from 1973, which immediately goes into such full swing with the Mongo Santamaria track ‘Afro Blue’ that nothing else seems possible. What an opener! With full orchestral instrumentation, only the best of the best like Sonny Fortune, Alphonze Mouzon and Julius Watkins.

Mr. Tyner demonstrates not only his pianistic untouchability as one of THE best pianists in jazz: ‚The charts are by Tyner, his first scoring for groups of this size, and fully convincing evidence that this very major pianist is actually a very major pianist / leader / composer / arranger.‘

A very good record to land on planet Tyner. His playing has an almost hallucinogenic effect. If you get into it. Must listen to it!

Stefan Mohr