McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner in 1973
Background information
Birth name	McCoy Tyner
Born	December 11th, 1938
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre(s)	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, Soloist, Composer, Band Leader
Instrument(s)	Piano
Years active	46
Label(s)	Telarc, Impulse!, Blue Note
Associated acts	John Coltrane
Website	http://mccoytyner.com/bio.shtml

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (512x768, 139 KB)McCoy Tyner in 1973. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Cradle of Liberty, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Telarc International Corporation is a Cleveland, Ohio based independent record label, founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods. ... Impulse! Records is an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City. ... In jazz and blues notes added to the major scale for expressive quality, loosely defined by musicians to be an alteration to a scale or chord that makes it sound like the blues. ... John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cover from album by Bud Powell. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ...

Tyner was born in Philadelphia as the oldest of three children. He was encouraged to study piano by his mother. He finally began studying the piano at age 13 and within two years, music had become the focal point in his life.

His first main exposure came with Benny Golson being the first pianist in Golson's and Art Farmer's legendary Jazztet (1959). After departing the Jazztet, Tyner joined Coltrane's group in 1960. (Coltrane had known Tyner for a while, and featured one of the pianist's compositions, "The Believer", as early as 1958.) He appeared on the saxophonist's popular recording of "My Favorite Things" for Atlantic Records. The Coltrane Quartet, which consisted of Coltrane on tenor sax, Tyner, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums, toured almost non-stop between 1961 and 1965 and recorded a number of classic albums, including Live at the Village Vanguard, Ballads, Crescent, A Love Supreme, and The John Coltrane Quartet Plays …, on the Impulse! label. Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Jimmy Garrison (March 3, 1934(33?) – April 7, 1976) was an American jazz double bassist best known for his long association with John Coltrane from 1961 – 1967. ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... Elvin Jones Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is mostly a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... Impulse! Records is an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City. ...

Tyner has recorded a number of highly influential albums in his own right. While in Coltrane's group, he recorded a series of relatively conservative albums (primarily in the piano trio format) for Impulse. After leaving Coltrane's group, he began a series of post-bop albums released on the Blue Note label, in the 1967–1970 time frame (The Real McCoy, 1967; Tender Moments, 1967; Expansions, 1968; Extensions, 1970). Soon thereafter he moved to the Milestone label and recorded many influential albums, including Sahara (1972), Enlightenment (1973), and Fly With The Wind (1976), which featured flautist Hubert Laws and drummer Billy Cobham. His music for Blue Note and Milestone often took the Coltrane quartet's music as a point of departure, but took off in different directions including the incorporation of African and East Asian musical elements. These albums are often cited as examples of vital, innovative jazz from the 1970s that was neither fusion nor free jazz. 1975's Trident is notable for featuring Tyner on harpsichord (rarely heard in jazz) and celeste, in addition to his primary instrument, piano. Often cited as a major influence on younger jazz musicians, Tyner still records and tours regularly and played from the 1980s through '90s with a trio that included Avery Sharpe on bass and Aaron Scott on drums. Today Tyner records for the Telarc label and has been playing with different trios, the most recent of which includes Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Harland on drums. Post-bop is a term for a form of small-combo jazz music that evolved in the early-to-mid sixties. ... In jazz and blues notes added to the major scale for expressive quality, loosely defined by musicians to be an alteration to a scale or chord that makes it sound like the blues. ... Hubert Laws is an American jazz flutist, who also studied classical music. ... Billy Cobham in 1973. ... Bitches Brew (1970) by Miles Davis is considered the most influential early fusion album. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Harpsichord in the Flemish style A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet. ... French type, four-octave Celesta The Celesta (IPA ) is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. ... Charnett Moffett (b. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Tyner was a Sunni Muslim for a period of time beginning at the age of eighteen. His Muslim name was Sulaimon Saud. Today Tyner does not practice a specific religion. Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam. ... The stylized signature of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire. ...

McCoy Tyner was also married at one time and has three sons. His brother, Jarvis Tyner, is a high official in the leadership of the American Communist Party. McCoy, however, is not a pronounced advocate of any political ideology. Jarvis Tyner is the executive vice chair of the American Communist Party. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. ...

Discography (title - year issued - label)

• Inception - 1962 - Impulse!
• Great Moments with Mccoy Tyner - 1962 - Impulse!
• Nights of Ballads and Blues - 1963 - Impulse!
• Today and Tomorrow - 1963 - Impulse!
• Live at Newport - 1963 - Impulse!
• Reaching Fourth - 1963 - Impulse!
• McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington - 1964 - Impulse!
• A Love Supreme - 1964- Impulse!
• The Real McCoy - 1967 - Blue Note
• Tender Moments - 1967 - Blue Note
• Time for Tyner - 1968 - Blue Note
• Expansions - 1968 - Blue Note
• Cosmos - 1969 - Blue Note
• Extensions - 1970 - Blue Note
• Asante - 1970 - Blue Note
• Sahara - 1972 - Milestone/OJC
• Song for My Lady - 1972 - Milestone/OJC
• Echoes of a Friend - 1972 - Milestone/OJC
• Song of the New World - 1973 - Milestone/OJC
• Enlightenment - 1973 - Milestone/OJC
• Sama Layuca - 1974 - Milestone/OJC
• Atlantis - 1974 - Milestone/OJC
• Trident - 1975 - Milestone/OJC
• Fly with the Wind - 1976 - Milestone/OJC
• Focal Point - 1976 - Milestone
• Four Times Four - 1976 - Milestone
• Supertrios - 1977 - Milestone
• Inner Voices - 1977 - Milestone
• The Greeting - 1978 - Milestone
• Passion Dance - 1978 - Milestone
• Together - 1978 - Milestone
• Horizon - 1979 - Milestone
• 4 X 4 - 1980 - Milestone
• 13th House - 1981 - Milestone
• La Leyenda de La Hora - 1982 - Columbia
• Looking Out - 1982 - Columbia
• Dimensions - 1984 - Elektra
• It's About Time - 1985 - Blue Note
• Double Trios - 1986 - Denon
• Bon Voyage - 1987 - Timeless
• Tribute to John Coltrane - 1987 - Impulse!
• Live at the Musicians Exchange Cafe - 1987 - Who's Who In Jazz
• What's New? - 1987 - WestWind
• Revelations - 1988 - Blue Note
• Uptown/Downtown - 1988 - Milestone
• Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 1 - 1989 - KING Records
• Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 2 - 1989 - KING Records
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be - 1989 - Blue Note
• Soliloquy - 1991 - Blue Note
• Remembering John - 1991 - Enja
• New York Reunion - 1991 - Chesky
• 44th Street Suite - 1991 - Red Baron
• Key of Soul - 1991 - Sweet Basil
• The Turning Point - 1991 - Verve
• Just Feelin' - 1991 - Palo Alto
• Hot Licks: Giant Steps - 1993 - Sound Solutions
• Journey - 1993 - Verve
• Manhattan Moods - 1993 - Blue Note
• Solar: McCoy Tyner Trio Live at Sweet Basil - 1993 - Compose
• Prelude and Sonata - 1994 - Milestone
• Infinity - 1995 - Impulse!
• Live in Warsaw - 1995 - Who's Who In Jazz
• Autumn Mood - 1997 - Delta
• What the World Needs Now: The Music of Burt Bacharach - 1997 - GRP
• McCoy Tyner & the Latin All-Stars - 1999 - Telarc
• McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke & Al Foster - 2000 - Telarc
• Immortal Concerts: Beautiful Love - 2000 - Giants of Jazz
• At the Warsaw Jamboree - 2000 - Starburst
• Jazz Roots: McCoy Tyner Honors Jazz Piano Legends of the 20th Century - 2000 - Telarc
• McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard - 2001 - Impulse!
• Live in Warsaw: Lady From Caracas - 2001 - TIM
• Port au Blues - 2002 - Past Perfect
• Suddenly - 2002 - Past Perfect
• Land of Giants - 2003 - Telarc
• Hip Toe: Live at the Musicians Exchange Cafe 1987 - 2004 - Universe
• Modern Jazz Archive [live] - 2004 - Membran International
• Illuminations - 2004 - Telarc
• Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo - 2004 - Milestone
• Warsaw Concert 1991 - 2004 - Fresh Sounds
• Sahara - 2006 - Mobile Fidelity (SACD reissue)

A Love Supreme is a jazz album recorded by John Coltranes quartet on December 9, 1964 at the Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. ... The Real McCoy is an album by McCoy Tyner. ...

See Also

• McCoy Tyner Tour Dates

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Multimedia

• NEA Jazz Masters video biography narrated by Billy Taylor
• McCoy Tyner with the John Coltrane Quartet performing Afro Blue on Ralph Gleason's "Jazz Casual", 1963
• McCoy Tyner Giant Steps, 1996

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External links

• McCoy Tyner Official Homepage
• McCoy Tyner at Jazz Resource Center
• McCoy Tyner Sessionography
• NEA Jazz Masters Biography