Inception

Giving listeners the chance to hear what a very young Tyner sounded like outside the confines of the classic John Coltrane quartet of the early '60s; it reveals a lyrical approach to jazz piano that seems a far cry from Tyner's later style. The choice of material is fairly evenly split between modal pieces like and more harmonically involved tunes, and the pianist's treatment of both demonstrates the extent to which his early work was rooted in bebop.