McCoy Tyner

Wilbyman · #1 12-17-2006, 02:08 PM

Dagawn it, I'm listening to some 11/1962 Impulse Trane and McCoy just played something completely amazing. What an phenomenal player. It just occurred to me that I know very little about him other than his discography, which I'm probably only partly conversant with. Anybody got anything to share about him?

Jake · #2 12-17-2006, 07:58 PM

I like his newer stuff (& of course Trane, Real McCoy, etc.) like the album with Michael Brecker, Infinity. It's got McCoy's trio with Avery Sharpe on bass.

**Freddels** · #3 12-17-2006, 08:54 PM

I saw McCoy at Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth back around 85. Avery Sharpe was playing bass. It was a great show. We were paying to get in when this guy tries to walk past us and in and the girl stops him and tells him there's a cover charge. It was McCoy. He just responded with "I'm playing here tonight", and kept on walking.

Wilbyman · #4 12-18-2006, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Freddels

I saw McCoy at Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth back around 85. Avery Sharpe was playing bass. It was a great show. We were paying to get in when this guy tries to walk past us and in and the girl stops him and tells him there's a cover charge. It was McCoy. He just responded with "I'm playing here tonight", and kept on walking.

Doh! I've seen that happen before as well. Heck, it happens to me quite often

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I've not heard alot of the more recent stuff (Avery Sharpe stuff) but will check it out.

zac2944 · #5 12-18-2006, 11:14 AM

McCoy is just fantastic. I saw him play a few years back in a small jazz club in upstate NY. It was just him and a piano. No band. One of the most intimate performances I've ever seen. I still get tingles just remembering it. We sat about 10 feet from him. You could hear him humming to himself as he played.

I really dig his Coltrane stuff and the older Real McCoy/Trident material. He's got such a unique voice on the piano. He is very rhythmic, and uses a lot of chord melodies.

Andy Allen · #6 12-18-2006, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilbyman

I've not heard alot of the more recent stuff (Avery Sharpe stuff) but will check it out.

Avery Sharpe is definitely a very tasty - and tasteful - player. Well worth the listen.

More info. here:

http://www.allmusic.com/

Andy