Biography

It would be difficult to overstate McCoy Tyner's impact on the last three decades of jazz piano, first as a member of the classic Coltrane quartet in the 1960s, and later as a leader. His thundering bass tremolos, floating quartal harmonies, and blistering pentatonic runs have become part of the lingua franca of jazz piano. Tyner’s recordings have skilfully blended elements of African and Asian music with the European classical tradition, but in 1997 he surprised the jazz world with a Burt Bacharach covers album. By 2000 he had returned to form with the aptly-titled JAZZ ROOTS.

Top Tracks

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• A Song For Love

• Afro Blue

• Ain't Misbehavin'

• All My Yesterdays

• Alone Together

• Amberjack

• Asante

• Asian Lullaby

• Ballad For Aisha

• Blue Bossa

• Blue Monk

• Blues On The Corner

• Bouncing With Bud

• Caravan

• Cosmos

• December

• Festival In Bahia

• Fly With The Wind

• For All We Know

• Forbidden Land

• Four By Five

• Fulfillment

• Goodbye

• Groove Waltz

• Hope

• How High The Moon

• I Got Rhythm

• I Mean You

• I Thought I'd Let You Know

• If I Should Lose You

• Illuminations

• I'm Old Fashioned

• Impressions

• In The Tradition Of

• Inception

• Lazy Bird

• Lullaby Of Birdland

• Makin' Out

• Message From The Nile

• Mode To John

• Moment's Notice

• My Favorite Things

• Naima

• Nubia

• One Of Another Kind

• Passion Dance

• Planet X

• Prelude To A Kiss

• Rotunda

• 'round Midnight

• Sama Layuca

• Solitude

• Song For My Lady

• Song Of Happiness

• Song Of The New World

• Speak Low

• St. Thomas

• Survival Blues

• The Kicker

• The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

• The Search

• The Wanderer

• There Is No Greater Love

• Tones For Joan's Bones

• Tribute To Lady Day

• Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit

• West Philly Tone Poem

• Willow Weep For Me

• You Taught My Heart To Sing

Discography

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• Solo: Live from San Francisco

  Half Note Records

  2009

• Guitars

  Half Note/McCoy Tyner

  2008

• Afro Blue

  Telarc Distribution

  2007

• McCoy Tyner Quartet

  2007

• Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo

  Milestone Records

  2004

• Illuminations

  Telarc Distribution

  2004

• Land of Giants

  Telarc Distribution

  2003

• Jazz Roots: McCoy Tyner Honors Jazz Piano Legends of the 20th Century

  Telarc Distribution

  2000

• Immortal Concerts: Beautiful Love

  Giants Of Jazz Recordings

  2000

• McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke & Al Foster

  Telarc Jazz Zone / Telarc Distribution

  2000

• McCoy Tyner & the Latin All-Stars

  Telarc Jazz Zone / Telarc Distribution

  1999

• What the World Needs Now: The Music of Burt Bacharach

  Impulse! / GRP

  1997

• Autumn Mood

  Laserlight / Delta Distribution

  1997

• Live in Warsaw

  Who's Who in Jazz

  1995

• Prelude and Sonata

  Milestone Records

  1994

• Solar: McCoy Tyner Trio Live at Sweet Basil

  Peter Pan (ISP)

  1993

• Manhattan Moods

  Blue Note

  1993

• Remembering John

  Fantasy

  1991

• Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 2

  Paddle Wheel

  1989

• Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 1

  Paddle Wheel

  1989

• Tribute to John Coltrane

  MCA/Impulse!

  1987

• La Leyenda de la Hora [The Legend of the Hour]

  Koch Jazz / eOne / Koch International

  1982

• Looking Out

  Wounded Bird Records

  1982

• 13th House

  Original Jazz Classics

  1981

• Horizon

  Milestone Records

  1980

• Together

  Original Jazz Classics

  1979

• The Greeting

  Original Jazz Classics

  1978

• Inner Voices

  Original Jazz Classics

  1977

• Focal Point

  Original Jazz Classics

  1976

• Four Times Four

  Milestone Records

  1976

• Sama Layuca

  Milestone Records

  1974

• Asante

  Blue Note

  1970

• Extensions

  Blue Note

  1970