Inner Urge

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  1964

  James

  Henderson pushes post-bop toward greater harmonic and rhythmic abstraction without abandoning intensity or swing. The title track’s restless structure gives McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, and Elvin Jones enormous room to reshape the music dynamically. Henderson’s tenor playing is sharp, angular, and highly controlled even at peak intensity. The album balances intellectual complexity with physical momentum remarkably well. There’s tension in nearly every phrase and rhythmic shift. It’s one of the defining documents of adventurous mid-1960s Blue Note jazz.

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  Jazz - Bop

  Matt Bowes