The best feeling I've experienced with Central Park West was when I played it outside on a early new year's morning 7 ish AM, when it was snowing like crazy and everyone in my house from the New year's celebration was asleep. I stepped outside and was blinded by a harsh white haze. You couldn't see anything from 500 feet away. And the streets were empty, but I managed to walk down the street with this playing in my ears. The snowflakes were big and hollow like cotton, and landed very slowly almost like time was coming to a stop. I eventually got home after freezing outside when the song finally finished. Central Park West captured a nostalgic emotion that I felt then and still do.
McCoy Tyner on piano Alec Woods........Tyner was born in Philadelphia as the oldest of three children. He was encouraged to study piano by his mother. He began studying the piano at age 13 and within two years music had become the focal point in his life.
Running in Central Park toward the end of the New York Marathon, with the above version of Coltrane's C.P.W. filling my head was practically an out of world experience. Stan Bass
I first heard Coltrane and this song when I was 15, in 1992. I’ve been transfixed and mesmerized by it ever since. Its gentleness, subtlety, and beauty are, for me, unparalleled.
One of these days I'm going to save up enough dough to get a hotel room over looking Central Park West and have a few cocktails with my my babe and listen to this full blast as we drink the night away
my man. tyner on the keys so understated here. discovered him through coltrane's 'my favorite things' and never looked back. what fantastic musicians. trane wrote this?
