McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner (1938-2020) was an American jazz pianist from Philadelphia. He was the pianist in the John Coltrane Quartet from 1960 to 1965, playing on A Love Supreme, Crescent and Ballads, and went on to lead his own groups. His chord voicings built on fourths and his heavy, low left hand became trademarks of his playing. Tyner came up in the Philadelphia scene alongside Lee Morgan and Jimmy Heath and briefly joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer's Jazztet. His debut as a leader, Inception, came out on Impulse! in 1962.
Meditations
Following the genre-redefining revelations of A Love Supreme in 1965, John Coltrane began a dramatic shift toward spiritual free jazz, abandoning familiar forms in favor of a more abstract sonic palette and bold questions he'd spend the rest of his life and career pursuing. Meditations, released by Impulse! in 1966, continues that emotional throughline while retaining, for the last time in full, the classic quartet that propelled Trane to greatness: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison an…
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A Love Supreme (LP)
1972 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1964 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Live In Seattle (2LP)
1974 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1971 double-album with a 1965 live recording featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Live On Mount Meru Volume Two (LP)
Rare grey area first edition on Historic Performances Records in 1971 of live recordings from 1961 featuring Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, later officially re-issued as Coltranology Volume One.
Olé (LP)
1972 Japanese re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazz Age" series of the 1961 album featuring Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Live At The Village Vanguard (LP)
First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Live At The Village Vanguard (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue on ABC Impulse!'s "Impulse Best Collection" of the 1962 album featuring Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Coltrane (LP)
First mono pressing in stereo sleeve of the 1962 album by the "John Coltrane Quartette" featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Ballads (LP)
1972 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Ballads (LP)
1980 Japanese re-issue on MCA's "Impulse Definitive 1500 Yen Collection" of the 1963 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
Impressions (LP)
1980 Japanese edition on MCA of the 1963 live album featuring Eric Dolphy, Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
A Love Supreme (LP)
1980 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA's "Jazztime Now!!" series of the 1964 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
A Love Supreme (LP)
1991 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!'s "Gold Of G.D. 100" series of the 1964 album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
Live At Birdland (LP)
1991 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA of the 1964 live album featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
Ascension (LP)
1974 re-issue on Impluse! of the Edition I of the 1966 album featuring Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, John Tchicai, Marion Brown, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Kulu Sé Mama (LP)
1980 Japanese re-issue on Impulse!/MCA of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Meditations (LP)
1968 US re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, Rashied Ali and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Meditations (LP)
1968 US re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1966 album featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, Rashied Ali and McCoy Tyner.
Transition (LP)
Original US edition on Impulse!/ABC of the 1970 album with a recording from 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Live In Paris Part 2 (LP)
Origina Japanese edition on BYG's "Jazz Collection 1500" series of the 1972 album with live recordings from 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Unissued Concert In Germany 1963 Part One (LP)
Original edition of the Italy-only 1973 album on Jazz Galore with a live recording in Germany from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Coltranology Volume One (LP)
1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1973 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Eric Dolphy, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
Coltranology Volume Two (LP)
1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1978 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert and obi.
Coltranology Volume Two (LP)
1980 original Japanese edition on Affinity of the 1978 album with recordings from 1963 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With insert.
Impressions Of Europe (LP)
Grey area Italian LP on Ingo with live recordings made in Denmark and Austria in 1962 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Creation (LP)
Grey area UK LP on Blue Parrot Records with live recordings made in the USA in 1964 and 1965 featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
Echoes Of A Friend (LP)
Original edition on Victor with different cover from worldwide pressings of the 1972 Japan-only album. With insert.
Supertrios (2LP)
Original Japanese edition on Milestone of the 1977 double-album featuring Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez and Ron Carter. With insert and obi.
Extensions
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** "Languishing off-catalogue for many years, McCoy Tyner's Extensions may be the pianist's most unjustly neglected album. Strange days, for not only is the music ineffably vibrant, but Extensions is the only recording ever to feature Tyner alongside pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, who replaced him in saxophonist John Coltrane's group in 1966. The album has one foot in the echoes of John Coltrane's "classic quartet," of which Tyner was a member from 1960-65, and…
The Montreux Years
A collection of some of McCoy Tyner’s best Montreux Jazz Festival live performances!
The audio has Expertly restored and remastered in superlative HD audio; The Montreux Years is released on superior audiophile heavy weight vinyl and MQA quality CD. The release includes brand new liner notes and rare photos from his Montreux shows.
Extensions
McCoy Tyner looked towards Africa on his stunning 1970 album Extensions, a far-reaching exploration of Black identity that marked the masterful pianist’s fifth recording for Blue Note Records. After leaving John Coltrane’s band Tyner had moved from Impulse to Blue Note and made his enduring post-bop classic The Real McCoy in 1967. In the following years Tyner steadily expanded his musical scope: writing for a 9-piece ensemble on Tender Moments, exploring the textures of a piano-vibes led quartet…
At the Penthouse in Seattle September 30, 1965
Radio broadcast of a daytime performance at The Penthouse, Seattle, Washington, September 30, 1965 taped by an amateur fan.
Song Of Praise, Live New York 1965
Temporary Super Offer! "These Half Note recordings from March 26 and May 7, 1965, two dates from an extended stay at the club, were captured as a radio broadcast. ezz-thetics has re-sequenced the music here to demonstrate Coltrane’s approach to incorporating all his inventions into a performance, while also mapping a future to his music." – Mark Corroto
Producers note: "We have re-sequenced these tracks to allow the listener to become part of the development of the music and to follow J…
Nights of Ballads & Blues
As the title implies, this McCoy Tyner release is a low-key, after-hours affair. Far removed from the intensity of work with then-boss John Coltrane, Tyner stretches out on a fine mix of standards and bebop classics. The pianist, of course, always had his own fleet and rich way with ballads, in spite of the galvanizing marathon solos he became known for on live dates and his later experimental recordings with Coltrane. His ballad style is even touched with a bit of sentimentality, which thankful…
Today And Tomorrow
McCoy Tyner's 1964 Impulse! album, joining a trio session with Jimmy Garrison and Albert Heath (4 June 1963) and a sextet with Thad Jones, Frank Strozier, John Gilmore, Butch Warren and Elvin Jones (4 February 1964). Verve By Request reissue, 2024.
Time For Tyner
Japanese UHQCD reissue (UCCQ-9640, 2024) of McCoy Tyner's 1969 Blue Note album, a hornless quartet with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 17 May 1968.
Asante
McCoy Tyner septet with Andrew White, Ted Dunbar, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Mtume and vocalist Songai Sandra Smith, recorded on 10 September 1970 for Blue Note and first released in 1974. Tone Poet 180g LP.