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	McCoy Tyner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tyner was a Sunni Muslim for a period of time since the age of 18.
		McCoy Tyner was also married at one time and has three sons.
		McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars - 1999 - Telarc
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McCoy_Tyner (743 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: McCoy Tyner: The Pianist
		Pianist McCoy Tyner’s artistry and innovation embrace a multitude of styles, from African and Latin rhythms to the modal harmonies of the post-bebop era.
		McCoy’s decision to study piano was reinforced when he encountered the legendary bebop pianist Bud Powell, who was a neighbor of the family's.
		Tyner has always expanded his vision of the musical landscape and incorporated new elements, whether from distant continents or diverse musical influences.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/tyner_mccoy.html (710 words)

	E.J.N. - McCOY TYNER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McCoy Tyner, renowned contemporary acoustic pianist and composer in the jazz tradition began studying the instrument at thirteen, and has been performing professionally since he was 15.
		McCoy's diligence in his piano studies surfaced early, though met with some restistance because his father was unable to see any value in it.
		By the time McCoy was 14, his mother, who has a beautician and entrepreneur, used her earnings from her business to buy McCoy his first instrument, a Spinet.
	www.ejn.it /mus/tyner.htm (473 words)

	NPR : Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: McCoy Tyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pianist and composer (Alfred) McCoy Tyner was born in Philadelphia in 1938.
		Tyner's impact waned in the last half of the decade; his career was revived, however, in the early 1970s by recordings he made for Milestone records; one of these, Sahara, was named Album of the Year in the Down Beat Critics Poll and received two Grammy nominations.
		McCoy Tyner began arranging his compositions for The McCoy Tyner Big Band in 1980s and also worked in the trio setting.
	www.npr.org /programs/pianojazz/previousguests/summer2004/tyner.html (293 words)

	McCoy Tyner brings musical message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tyner's deep, rich voice and laughter were a pleasant accompaniment, as he signed autographs, shook hands and discussed music with students during breaks.
		Born in 1938 and raised in western Philadelphia, Tyner began piano lessons at age 13, and by the time he was in junior high school, he had formed his first band.
		Tyner's collaboration with ensemble members Saturday may have provided students with the same kind of impetus and challenge.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/96/4.25.96/tyner.html (380 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MCCOY TYNER: Well, his whole concept was no limitations and his quest that he took upon himself was to open everything up, just whatever you want, do it.
		MCCOY TYNER: Yeah, well, the thing is, Fred, I am the kind of person where I don't wait for the signal to do things.
		MCCOY TYNER: The new record on Telarc, it's Al Foster on drums and Stanley Clarke on bass, upright and electric.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/tyner.htm (2364 words)

	NYPL, Video Gallery Cataloging Data: McCoy Tyner
		Tyner's father sang in a church quartet, his beautician mother adored piano; local jazz musicians held jam sessions in her beauty salon.
		Biography/History McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
		Tyner is known for his open style and currently performs solo, with his trio and occasionally with a big band.
	www.nypl.org /research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/mtcat.htm (633 words)

	CATALOG: McCOY TYNER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tyner received major assistance from sidemen Hubert Laws, Ron Carter, and Billy Cobham, each of whom is both a major jazz stylist and an experienced hand at large studio projects; but the major credit goes to the leader, whose effective arrangements for this unfamiliar ensemble successfully amplified his dynamic and highly influential conception.
		Tyner albums featuring groups of this size are among his most memorable, and Together belongs with such earlier triumphs as Today and Tomorrow and Expansions near the pinnacle of his discography.
		McCoy Tyner's considerable influence began during his long run as John Coltrane's pianist in the 1960s and grew steadily after he left Coltrane in 1965 to establish his own career.
	www.fantasyjazz.com /catalog/tyner_m_cat.html (1363 words)

	Telarc International: McCoy Tyner
		McCoy Tyner, four-time Grammy award winner and NEA 2001 Jazz Masters recipient, is considered by many as a mystic in the music world.
		Tyner was 13 years old when his mother, his first inspiration, gave him the choice between studying voice and piano.
		Tyner’s classic sextet format is born when he signs with Milestone in the early 1970’s, a time when he is lauded in Readers and Critics polls.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=109 (986 words)

	McCoy Tyner headlines Cornell Jazz Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McCoy Tyner, one of the leading interpreters and innovators of modern jazz, will headline the Cornell Jazz Festival this weekend.
		Tyner's rehearsal with the Cornell Lab Ensembles, prior to the evening performance, will be open to the public at 2 p.m.
		Tyner's appearance at the festival is supported by the Cornell Council on the Arts, the Student Assembly Finance Commission and Meet the Composer, which receives funding from the Ann and Gordon Gertty Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/4.18.96/jazz.html (419 words)

	Threesome
		Although McCoy Tyner’s recent output features the Philadelphia-reared pianist at the helm of a quartet, a Latin jazz ensemble, a big band and a full symphony orchestra, his basic currency is still the trio.
		Scott, whose rolling percussive style complements Tyner’s orchestral piano, refers to their trio as an "organic" whole: "There is such a feeling of freedom between the three of us that anyone can take the lead at any point, in the direction that the music is going.
		On his new disc, Tyner’s celebrated mercurial tendencies are for the most part hidden under a surface of tasteful refinement.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/021000/mus.tyner.shtml (707 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Effendi
		On pianist McCoy Tyner's first solo album, 1962's Inception, "Effendi" makes an appearance as an original composition, which is fitting since there could be no better term to describe one of jazz's most respected ambassadors.
		A dynamic live performer, Tyner was the first musician to play at Austin's One World Theatre, a venue that complements his elegance and expressiveness.
		McCoy Tyner: That's a pretty tough thing to be specific about, but one thing I can say is that it epitomizes self-expression.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-01-11/music_feature.html (1461 words)

	SoundStage! McCoy Tyner - Jazz Roots
		Tyner has clearly taken the time to learn the intricacies of Monk’s style; yet, he has the confidence to express himself at the same time, without resorting to mere imitation.
		Tyner has been around long enough, has played with most of the first-rank musicians, and been intelligent enough to absorb what he’s learned, so he can immerse himself in a full range of styles and still play like no one except himself.
		Tyner, who is anything but sparse in his piano style (a trait he developed while trying to make himself heard as a part of the John Coltrane quartet), is a much busier pianist than players such as Powell, Monk or Evans.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev291.htm (492 words)

	National Initiatives: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour - McCoy Tyner
		McCoy Tyner's powerful, propulsive style of piano playing was an integral part of the John Coltrane Quartet in the early 1960s and influenced countless musicians that followed him.
		From 1960-65, Tyner played a major role in the success of the Coltrane quartet (which included Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass), using rich-textured harmonies as rhythmic devices against Coltrane's "sheets of sound" saxophone playing.
		Tyner has continued to experiment with his sound, pushing rhythms and tonalities to the limit, his fluttering right hand creating a cascade of notes.
	arts.endow.gov /national/jazz/artists_tour/tyner.html (445 words)

	Interview with McCoy Tyner
		McCoy Tyner, who performs at Christopher Newport University Friday night, May 3rd, as part of the Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Festival and Virginia Arts Festival, is truly one of the giants of jazz.
		Tyner was playing with the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet, having made his recording debut that year on Meet the Jazztet, an album that included the original "Killer Joe." However, when Coltrane called, Tyner accepted, and the foundation was laid for one of the most important groups in jazz history.
		At CNU, McCoy Tyner will be performing in a trio format with his long-time rhythm section, keeping it "simple." Bassist Avery Sharpe has been with him for twenty years, and Aaron Scott has manned the drum throne since 1989.
	www.jimnewsom.com /MccoyTyner.html (1244 words)

	McCoy Tyner \| The Greeting
		Tyner's solo here, by contrast, seems detached and most concerned with maintaining intensity at all costs, even at the expense of revealing any emotional vulnerability it would seem.
		Of course, McCoy Tyner is hardly a soulless musician, and on his solo feature of Naima, he shows the penchant for romanticism and lyrical sensitivity that he was to make his name on in solo recordings of later years.
		Tyner as a writer simply knew how to push the buttons of those who yearned for a powerful, epic sound that was “inspirational” in some sense of the word.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=10448 (971 words)

	McCoy Tyner Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the audience sat down to listen to the McCoy Tyner Trio Saturday night they were told to sit back and fasten their seat-belts for a "slick, high-energy" ride.
		At the age of thirteen Tyner began studying the piano through the influence of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum and was playing professionally by the age of fifteen.
		Tyner has his roots in North Carolina, often called an "incubation center for jazz musicians." His parents are from eastern North Carolina where he spent his boyhood summers picking tobacco.
	www.ibiblio.org /jazzfest/satconcrt.html (373 words)

	VH1.com : McCoy Tyner : Biography
		McCoy Tyner grew up in Philadelphia where Bud Powell and Richie Powell were neighbors.
		After leaving Coltrane, McCoy Tyner struggled for a period, working as a sideman (with Ike and Tina Turner, amazingly) and leading his own small groups; his recordings were consistently stimulating even during the lean years.
		After he signed with Milestone in 1972, Tyner began to finally be recognized as one of the greats, and he has never been short of work since.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/tyner_mccoy/bio.jhtml (436 words)

	WFIU: Night Lights - McCoy Tyner
		Over the next four years Tyner would record seven albums as a leader for Impulse, most often in the trio format that was seen as being both commercially favorable and a chance to showcase him in a setting different from the Coltrane quartet.
		Though Tyner's playing on these records is considered not to be as adventurous as his performances with Coltrane during the same period, Tyner's style--achieved somewhat by a prominent use of fourth chords, which gave both his and Coltrane's music a more abstract, serious, and spiritual sound--is already quite present.
		Tyner's last 1960s album for Impulse, PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON, was recorded the same week that he was in the studio to do A LOVE SUPREME with Coltrane.
	www.iub.edu /~wfiu/nl_100904-tyner.htm (309 words)

	McCoy Tyner Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although his father's attitude was no positive influence, Tyner was lucky to spend his childhood and early adulthood in the early 1950's, the Be Bop era of jazz music, and to be born and raised in Philadelphia, one of the great jazz cities.
		Tyner listened to all the legends of the period, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Billie Holiday, but artistically was most influenced by Bop Pianists Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk.
		However, Tyner achieved fame and the peak of his career while he was the pianist of the John Coltrane's quartet from 1960-1965.
	www-music.duke.edu /jazz_archive/artists/tyner.mccoy/01/biography.htm (455 words)

	McCoy Tyner - Biography, Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tyner was also featured on a concept album entitled The Milestone Jazz Stars, also featuring Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, which was an early example of a jazz label road show.
		McCoy changed the piece to a bossa nova on a whim and liked the results; it is a compelling piece of music.
		McCoy Tyner is without a doubt one of the greatest living jazz performers, arrangers, and composers, and has contributed an immeasurable amount to the history of the art form.
	www-music.duke.edu /jazz_archive/artists/tyner.mccoy/02/bio3.html (724 words)

	McCoy Tyner
		Tyner has a singular tone on piano - as some other writer correctly noted, he's one of the few pianists you can identify from the first note - intense but not bombastic, introspective but not calm, more likely to play clustered chords than high melodic runs.
		There are four long tunes - all by Tyner - and they all have their moments (particularly the title tune) but all drag at times, especially "Goin' Home," where the repetition of Buster Williams' bass vamp and Dunbar's funk-style guitar lick is mind-numbing.
		This time, Tyner's nod to experimentation is his use of harpsichord and celeste, but he can't think of anything constructive to do with them, so all he does is state the theme at the beginning of each piece, then switch to his usual piano.
	www.warr.org /tyner.html (2600 words)

	McCoy Tyner : International JAZZ PRODUCTIONS.com
		Tyner was born in Philadelphia on December 11, 1938, the oldest of three children.
		But Tyner gained recognition in the 1970’s, due to groups featuring Sonny Fortune and Azar Lawrence and recordings for Milestone (like “Sahara”, which received two Grammy nominations and was named ‘Album of the year’ in the Down Beat Critics Poll).
		Tyner’s music has been a major influence over the adoption in Jazz of quartal and quintal harmonies, modes and pentatonic scales.
	www.internationaljazzproductions.com /mtyner.html (734 words)

	CD Review of McCoy Tyner - Counterpoints on Milestone @ jazzreview.com
		Since leaving that group in 1965, Tyner has built a career as pianist, composer, bandleader, and, eventually, jazz icon, issuing a stream of recordings including Sahara, which received two Grammy nominations and was named 'Album of the year' in the Down Beat Critics Poll.
		Tyner's style is unmistakable, highly percussive, rhythmically intense, filled with vamps, pedal points, quartal and quintal harmonies, and pentatonic scales.
		Tyner's percussive approach does tend to limit his dynamic range and this can become tiresome.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=8780 (487 words)

	McCoy Tyner Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McCoy Tyner, renowned contemporary acoustic pianist and composer in the jazz tradition, began studying the instrument at thirteen and has been performing professionally since he was fifteen.
		Although first noticed in 1959 in the Jazztet, McCoy Tyner secured his place in the early and mid 1960's in the epocal Coltrane Quartet with drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Jimmy Garrison.
		McCoy Tyner tours throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan and currently lives in New York City.
	www.ibiblio.org /jazzfest/newtyner.html (238 words)

	Untitled Document
		Tyner, slated to perform a solo piano concert in the Memorial Chapel this Saturday, made a name for himself by combining a rare degree of technical virtuosity for any pianist with a frank, visceral approach to the piano.
		Tyner's voicing approach was not only instrumental to Coltrane's evolving modal compositions, but, in the opinion of this reviewer, defined the very art form Coltrane's quartet was seeking to create.
		Tyner's latest trio, which includes bassist Avery Sharpe and drummer Aaron Scott, recently won a Grammy for their performance of Coltrane's "Impressions" with saxophonist Michael Brecker on the ground-breaking album "Infinity." The last several years have also witnessed a recording project with the trio of saxophonist Joshua Redman, joined by trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
	www.lawrence.edu /sorg/Lawrentian/issue/cxvi/21/arts/mccoytyner.html (692 words)

	Latin Beat Magazine: McCoy Tyner's Latin side
		Tyner, "I played it until my fingers felt the punishment." However, the piano was his instrument of choice, and he completed three years of formal music training at the Philadelphia Music Center.
		In spite of that statement, McCoy Tyner's improvisations on the album are brilliant enough to be accceptable to both jazz and Latin music fans.
		McCoy Tyner is without a doubt one of the most important contemporary figures in jazz.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_7_13/ai_109404285 (930 words)

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