Alfred McCoy Tyner (born 1938)

Piano

McCoy

"To me living and music are all the same thing. And I keep finding out more about music as I learn more about myself, my environment, about all kinds of different things in life. I play what I live. Therefore, just as I can't predict what kinds of experiences I'm going to have, I can't predict the directions in which my music will go. I just want to write and play my instrument as I feel."
-- McCoy Tyner

Some Key Recordings

Recordings As Leader

• Inception/Night Of Ballads And Blues - Impulse! 42000 CD, 1963
• The Real McCoy - Blue Note 46512 CD, 1967
• Expansions - Blue Note 84338 CD, 1967
• Things Ain't What They Used To Be - Blue Note 93598 CD, 1989
• Remembering John - Enja 6080 CD, 1991
• Infinity - Impulse! IMPD-171 CD, 1995

Solo Recordings

• Echoes Of A Friend - Original Jazz Classics OJC 650 CD, 1972
• Revelations - Blue Note 91651 CD, 1988
• Soliloquy - Blue Note 96429 CD, 1991

Big Band Recordings

• Uptown/Downtown - Milestone MCD 9167 CD, 1988
• The Turning Point - Birdology 513573 CD, 1991
• Journey - Birdology 519941 CD, 1993

Further Explorations

• The Real McCoy - Keith Severson's McCoy Tyner Pages