Inner Urge

1966 (reissued 2022). McCoy Tyner (piano) and Elvin Jones (bass) would play on John Coltrane's A Love Supreme in the same studio 9 days later, but here led by Henderson (tenor sax) and accompanied by Bob Cranshaw (bass) is an urgent and urban counterpoint to the spirituality of that record. "I hear it as one of the major statements of jazz in the '60s, actually recreating the political, economic, and social realities of the turbulent times more precisely than most recorded music of the '60s in any style. An absolutely essential listen and a major masterpiece." - Norman Weinstein.