This complete 4 CD collection, containing almost five hours of music, showcases all of Tyner s work with Impulse! as a bandleader, bringing together as it does McCoy Tyner s finest early releases, during a period that the great man went from being a breakaway from John Coltrane s group, to a fully-fledged international and wildly respected jazz band-leader in his own right. This boxed set will thus serve as both welcome reminder of this sublime musician s best ever work, or as a starting point for those not yet flying the flag. Also included as part of this collection, is a rare, previously unreleased recording of a jam session undertaken by members of John Coltrane s group in Munich in 1961, led by Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet and McCoy Tyner on piano. This unique and rarely heard recording also featured Reggie Workman on bass, Mel Lewis on drums, and Coltrane himself contributed trumpet to one number