MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      McCoy Tyner It’s hard to overstate the influence pianist McCoy Tyner has wielded during the past four decades of jazz. He’s best known for his stint as John Coltrane’s right-hand man in Trane’s classic ‘60s quartet, but he’s also used his masterful modal musings and towering, ten-fingered chops to create a large and consistently fascinating body of solo work. Like so many great musicians, Alfred McCoy Tyner started young: the Philadelphia native was taking music theory classes as a teen, and joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer’s “Jazztet” in 1959, at the age of 20. Just one year later, the baby-faced Tyner was in Coltrane’s quartet, and preparing to help rewrite jazz history. In his five years with Trane, Tyner proved that despite his considerable skills -- perhaps best showcased on the quartet’s jawdropping cover of “My Favorite Things” -- he was a team player first and foremost, choosing to be the glue that held the band together on masterpieces like 1964’s A Love Supreme. Surprisingly, after he left Coltrane, Tyner worked with Ike and Tina Turner for a time, although he also began leading his own dates, some with his former bandmates Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Switching labels in 1972, from Blue Note to Milestone, Tyner began a run of great albums – Sahara, released that year, was the first -- that saw him exploring Latin rhythms and working with larger groups (even, on 1974’s Sama Layuca, an orchestra). In 1977, he collaborated with a team of all-stars like drummer Tony Williams and bassist Ron Carter for Supertrios, but by 1981 he’d left Milestone for Columbia, delivering the Afro-Cuban-soaked La Leyenda De La Hora. During the last two decades, Tyner’s role as one of jazz’s greatest living players has attracted scores of admirers and imitators, but he’s stayed as busy as ever, delivering new classics like 1995’s Infinity with his trio and working with everyone from a hero-worshipping team of “Young Lions” on ‘94’s Prelude and Sonata to violinist Stephane Grappelli.     McCoy Tyner Blues For Fatha MP3 Jazz Is it Fatha or just the real McCoy? Tyner plays chameleon on this powerful, rhythmic tribute to piano master Earl “Fatha” Hines!
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