UPDATE: “On September 23, 2008 McCoy Tyner will release a CD/DVD titled GUITARS on McCoy Tyner Music / Half Note Records featuring a trio of Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and special guests Bela Fleck, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell. The DVD has multiple angle viewing capabilities. For more information please visit www.bluenotejazz.com and www.mccoytyner.com”
Timessquare.com reports:
Pianist McCoy Tyner is embarking upon a new phase in his career…
The subsequent MTM release will be a studio CD and state of the art DVD featuring guitarists Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Derek Trucks, banjoist Béla Fleck, backed by the all-star rhythm section of Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter.
Recall that McCoy Tyner won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Derek mentioned the recording in a recent interview with straight.com:
The youngest person to make it onto Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list, Trucks isn’t particularly comfortable with that. “It’s not really what I’m shooting for,” he points out with a chuckle, “but whatever, I’ll take it.” Last February he was pictured on the influential music mag’s cover along with John Mayer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante, under the headline “New Guitar Gods”. The last thing Trucks wants is to be billed as some hotshot guitar-slinger. He’s more of a jazzy guy.
“The same month that the Rolling Stone cover came out, me and my wife were on the cover of Down Beat,” he reports, “which for me was more exciting. We’ve done a lotta music that tips the hat to the great jazz artists, whether it’s a Rahsaan Roland Kirk tune or a Wayne Shorter tune. You know, I just got to record with McCoy Tyner and Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette on a McCoy record and just did a show with Wynton Marsalis’s septet in New York City.”
And here’s a special treat, a video clip from the show with Wynton Marsalis (although Derek is not clearly visible, one gets a feel for what it was like.)
