This is certainly one of
McCoy Tyner's more obscure releases, put out by the budget Laserlight label. The great pianist and his regular trio (with bassist
Avery Sharpe and drummer
Aaron Scott) is joined by percussionist
Raphael Cruz and trumpeter
Claudio Roditi for some Brazilian-flavored modern jazz. The music (three obscure
Roditi originals,
Tyner's "Traces" and
Freddie Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring," here listed as "Up, Jump, Spring") is not by itself all that memorable, but
Roditi plays some mellow solos and
Tyner is typically passionate. A good but not essential outing.