Jazz Articles about McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner With Stanley Clarke And Al Foster

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2000

The piano trio performs standards at one end of the small dining room while you and your companion sip champagne at a nearby table. It’s a cool jazz session from an acoustic trio. Certainly relaxed and enjoyable, this evening wears a graceful posture but refuses to serve you subtle fire or strong emotion. It’s a far cry from John Coltrane’s classic quartet of the early ‘60s.

This cool acoustic trio carries over the percussive keyboard style of McCoy Tyner, but ...

McCoy Tyner: With Stanley Clarke And Al Foster

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2000

One cannot think of McCoy Tyner and not recall John Coltrane’s classic quartet. Tyner’s massive expression on the ivories was the equivalent of John Coltrane’s efforts to blow the jazz world wide open. For the past forty years his playing has been the model for most modern jazz piano. Of late, he has worked in a big band setting with his Latin All-Stars, covered the music of Bert Bacharach, and sat in on Michael Brecker’s recordings. His latest, a trio ...

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner With Stanley Clarke And Al Foster

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2000

The piano trio performs standards at one end of the small dining room while you and your companion sip champagne at a nearby table. It’s a cool jazz session from an acoustic trio. Certainly relaxed and enjoyable, this evening wears a graceful posture but refuses to serve you subtle fire or strong emotion. It’s a far cry from John Coltrane’s classic quartet of the early ‘60s.

This cool acoustic trio carries over the percussive keyboard style of McCoy Tyner, but ...

Wayne Shorter (Blue Note The Rudy Van Gelder Edition: Speak No Evil / JuJu

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1999

RVG Again. Will Smith and Chris Hovan wrote two very capable articles about the Blue Note RVG Editions. Their articles were very informative and they stimulated me to check out some “new” old music. I decided to start with the initial RVG releases by Wayne Shorter.

Déjà Vu All Over Again The nice thing about both jazz and classical music is that there is always something even the most astute listener has missed in his or her listening experience. Wayne ...

The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 1999

As far as jazz goes from the hard bop era, two names are synonymous with their groundbreaking work of the period-Blue Note Records and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note released a canon of recordings that have been revered by collectors and musicians alike over the years and Van Gelder was the man behind the sound that has drawn an equal share of raves throughout the past fifty years. So you would think that when Blue Note was resurrected ...

McCoy Tyner (OJC: Focal Point

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 1999

Although McCoy Tyner recorded with consistent excellence beyond his brilliant and definitive work with John Coltrane, the pianist's Milestone legacy (1972-81) cemented his individual place in the jazz pantheon. Focal Point is a 1976 Milestone date now reissued on OJC that enhances Tyner's then working trio of Charles Fambrough on bass and Eric Gravatt on drums with the commanding reeds of Gary Bartz, Joe Ford and Ron Bridgewater and Guilherme Franco's colorful, exotic percussion. Here, Tyner explores a ...

McCoy Tyner: Together

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1998

This relatively overlooked McCoy Tyner album features a septet of Tyner on piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and flugelhorn, Hubert Laws on flutes, Bennie Maupin on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes and marimba, Stanley Clarke on acoustic bass, Bill Summers on congas and percussion, and the uncredited Jack DeJohnette on drums.

Tyner with Hutcherson is always a treat. Add Hubbard and the under-appreciated Maupin and you're onto something. DeJohnette, Laws and Clarke are no slouches (and ...