Jazz Articles about McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner: Guitars

by Mark F. Turner
October 3, 2008

Sometimes musicians make strange studio-fellows. When the esteemed pianist McCoy Tyner teams up with an illustrious rhythm section (drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Ron Carter) and five diverse and highly noted guitarists--(Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Derek Trucks and virtuoso banjoist, Bela Fleck)--the result is very special. Tyner's legacy is well documented as a pioneer, an integral part of the John Coltrane Quartet, whose recordings included A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) and his many releases from ...

McCoy Tyner: Guitars

by Troy Collins
September 24, 2008

Pianist McCoy Tyner's dramatic arpeggios, thunderous bass pulses and modulated chord voicings have inspired generations of aspiring jazz musicians. An acoustic purist who sustained a viable career through the heavily electrified fusion era, Tyner has maintained impressive consistency in his performances and recordings since his seminal tenure in John Coltrane's classic mid-sixties quartet.Tyner's vast discography includes relatively few guitar wielding side-men; Guitars, then, is unique in Tyner's oeuvre as it contains a rotating roster of high profile guitarists, ...

McCoy Tyner: Fly With The Wind

by Glenn Astarita
August 8, 2008

Upon its release on LP in 1976, Fly With the Wind quickly became a significant part of pianist McCoy Tyner's growing canon. Played seemingly endlessly by fans, it's an album rarely cited as a classic from the '70s, since mainstream jazz was on the comeback trail from the difficult '60s. Nonetheless, this 24-bit remaster is one of many reissues emanating from legendary producer Orrin Keepnews' extensive Keepnews Collection.

Along with the original artwork and liners, Keepnews adds several ...

McCoy Tyner: Quartet

by Jeff Stockton
January 12, 2008

It seems grossly unfair that the debonair, elegant elder statesman on the cover of Quartet, a document of the concerts McCoy Tyner and his band gave on Dec. 30th-31st, 2006 at Yoshi's in Oakland, would still be trying to live up to the reputation for excellence he established with the John Coltrane Quartet some forty-plus years ago. Perhaps tellingly, three of the seven selections come from The Real McCoy, the first solo album Tyner made for Blue Note in 1965. ...

McCoy Tyner: Afro Blue

by John Kelman
December 1, 2007

While his days as a true innovator are long past, pianist McCoy Tyner, now approaching seventy, has continued to make fine music. In many ways, his post-1970s work has been more about stylistic breadth, contrasting sharply with the more focused modal inventions with John Coltrane in the 1960s that have made him so influential and have reserved a place in jazz history books. Still, while the music collected onto the compilation Afro Blue, documenting Tyner's eight-year tenure with Telarc, doesn't ...

McCoy Tyner: Quartet

by Mark Corroto
November 11, 2007

From the first few notes you know you're going to love this live recording by McCoy Tyner. With a bass line borrowed from John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964), the quartet doesn't exactly mimic the Coltrane era as much as take inspiration from its legacy. And of course that legacy included Tyner some forty years ago as he, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison were the rhythm section for the most creative jazz artist ever to advance this music.

McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select 25

by Joel Roberts
June 5, 2007

McCoy Tyner's career was at a commercial low in the late 1960s as he struggled to forge an identity for himself as a solo artist in the years following the death of John Coltrane. But as Mosaic's 3-CD collection of overlooked Tyner recordings from 1968-70 (originally issued as Expansions, Extensions, Asante and Cosmos) makes clear, the period was anything but fallow for him creatively. The set brings together the final six sessions the pianist made for Blue ...