{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Echoes of a Friend | type = Album | artist = McCoy Tyner | cover = Echoes of a Friend.jpg | alt = | released = 1972 | recorded = November 11, 1972<br>Tokyo | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 46:26 | label = JVC, Milestone | producer = Orrin Keepnews | prev_title = Sahara | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Song for My Lady | next_year = 1973 }} '''''Echoes of a Friend''''' is a 1972 album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner released on the JVC label, and later on the Milestone label. It was recorded in Tokyo, Japan, on November 11, 1972, and features Tyner in a solo piano tribute to John Coltrane.
==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=Allmusic/> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 194 }}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1426}}</ref> }} The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Few McCoy Tyner records are not easily recommended but this one even ranks above most."<ref name = Allmusic>Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r149209|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed February 23, 2009.</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by McCoy Tyner except where noted.
# "Naima" (Coltrane) – 6:43 # "Promise" (Coltrane) – 6:14 # "My Favorite Things" (Hammerstein, Rodgers) – 8:44 # "The Discovery" – 17:35 # "Folks" – 7:33
== Personnel == * McCoy Tyner – piano
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Category:Musical tributes Category:Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews Category:1972 albums Category:McCoy Tyner albums Category:Milestone Records albums