
in 1959, offers several concerts in San Francisco with Art Farmer and Benny Golson, who hired him within the "Jazztet" group with whom he recorded his first album. Then again meets with Coltrane (1960-1965), entering his quartet in place of Steve Kuhn. Parallel would record as a leader, along these six years, several albums with other musicians: Roy Haynes, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, etc. Coltrane Tyner found in the type of pianist and as a likeness of Bill Evans, was handled with comfort and ease in the field of modal jazz. In 1962, McCoy Tyner recorded for Impulse! first album as a leader, the

In 1963, Tyner was victorious in the referendum magazine's annual "Beat donw" in the category of "Newstar" and his albums for Impulse! "Once out of Coltrane's group in those years, are all highlighting outstanding for his brilliance: "Night of Ballads & Blues" (Impulse, 1963) and "Live in Newport" also in that year. In 1966 he founded his own trio, and began a freelance career that takes you to the ends of the world and play with different musicians and in 1967 signed a contract with Blue Note, and in his debut blue with the label, made an extraordinary album entitled "The Real McCoy."
After working for Blue Note, and hailed as one of the greatest pianists of hardbop, McCoy Tyner, signed by the Milestone label and that same year he recorded a masterpiece titled, "Sahara" by Down Beat regarded as the best album jazz of the year. In 1973, he recorded another extraordinary album "Enlightenment" and their contracts are multiplying around the world. In 1978 as part of a tour of "All Stars" Milestone seal with Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter and Al Foster, and recorded one of the greatest live albums of modern jazz. In 1987 is clearly one of the leading musicians of international touring tribute Coltrane and presented in a trio with bassist Avery Sharpe and drummer Louis Hayes. McCoy Tyner
is not only an extraordinary pianist, and special representative of the modal style, but because of the delicacy of his touch, the search for a sound always bright and ornamental improvisations, is one of the great musicians Modern jazz. The role played within the Coltrane quartet, he has made, no doubt, irreversibly, and always for the better: the pianist of calmness, gentleness, serenity and certainty, the opposite of the restless fury of leader.
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