{{distinguish|Passion Dance (Roseanna Vitro album)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Passion Dance | type = Live album | artist = McCoy Tyner | cover = Passion Dance.jpg | alt = | released = 1978 | recorded = July 28, 1978 | venue = Live Under the Sky | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Milestone | producer = Orrin Keepnews | prev_title = The Greeting | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = Counterpoints | next_year = 2004 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>{{AllMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|title=McCoy Tyner: ''Passion Dance''|class=album|id=mw0000410863|access-date=May 16, 2020}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/196 196] }}</ref> | rev3 = ''DownBeat'' | rev3score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=":0" /> }}
'''''Passion Dance''''' is a 1978 live album by the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, his fourteenth release on the Milestone label. It was recorded in July 1978 at the Live Under the Sky festival in Tokyo, Japan and features predominantly solo performances by Tyner, with two tracks including drummer Tony Williams and bassist Ron Carter. A second album from this concert, ''Counterpoints'', was released in 2004.
== Reception == The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states "All of Tyner's Milestone records of the 1970's are recommended and this is one of the better ones".<ref name=Allmusic/>
''DownBeat'' assigned the album 4.5 stars.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last= Freedman |first=Sam |date=April 1980 |title=Record Reviews |journal=DownBeat |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=34-35}}</ref> Reviewer Sam Freedman wrote, "What raises ''Passion Dance'' above Tyner’s constant four star plane, placing it among his finest work, is the unity of its wordless vision. Tyner has tempered his personal statements . . . ''Passion'' ''Dance,'' in contrast, completes a trinity of probing, sorrowful offerings begun by ''Sahara'' and ''Trident.'' Musically, Tyner’s shrapnel-sharp style pushes to the limits of chaos. Personally, his world view—''Sahara's'' urban netherworld, ''Trident's'' gloomy sea—pushes to the brink of grief. Deliberation and resolve, the dominant emotions of ''Passion Dances'' title song, constitute Tyner's sunny side".<ref name=":0" />
== Track listing == # "Moment's Notice" (Coltrane) – 9:23 # "Passion Dance" – 11:47 # "Search for Peace" – 6:36 # "The Promise" (Coltrane) – 6:28 # "Song of the New World" – 7:12 :''All compositions by McCoy Tyner except as indicated'' :*Recorded at "Live Under The Sky", Denen Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 1978
== Personnel == * McCoy Tyner – piano * Ron Carter – bass (tracks 1 & 5) * Tony Williams – drums (tracks 1 & 5)
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Category:Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews Category:1978 live albums Category:McCoy Tyner live albums Category:Milestone Records live albums