Two and a half years after his last recording as a leader for Impulse, pianist McCoy Tyner emerged to start a period on Blue Note that would result in seven albums. Having left John [more]
On this excellent set (reissued on CD by Blue Note), McCoy Tyner had the opportunity for the first time to head a larger group. His nonet is an all-star aggregation comprised of [more]
One of the more fun and informative ways to discover the jazz greats is to trace the music's evolution from album to album, checking out the music of the featured [more]
McCoy Tyner and Ahmad Jamal have always sounded very different than each other, but the two pianists have several qualities in common. Both [more]
No longer trying to push the envelope of innovation, Tyner settles down with a pair of experts and carves out a very nice, fairly [more]
Wow, here's a first (or so it seems) -- a tribute to sax legend John Coltrane that doesn't include his arrangement of "My Favorite [more]
The great pianist McCoy Tyner teams up with trumpeter Thad Jones, altoist Frank Strozier, tenor saxophonist John Gilmore (on vacation from Sun Ra), bassist Butch [more]
McCoy Tyner recorded five albums for Telarc, beginning with 1999's McCoy Tyner & the Latin All-Stars and ending with 2004's Illuminations. While no one would ever argue that these were the [more]
McCoy Tyner has rarely been reliant on others, although his legendary co-dependency with John Coltrane yielded obvious spectacular and unforgettable results. The great [more]