A Man Named McCoy Tyner 

One of my favourite musicians ever! I saw him play in 2010 at Jazz Baltica. He seemed like an old man until he started to play. What a pure and uplifting energy. I will never forget that. Thanks a lot for a video! Insightful and inspiring! With content like that, Jazz will remain visible like a lighthouse

I am very grateful for this video about one of my favorite jazz musicians, and would love to hear more about the recording of “Fly With The Wind,” my favorite of his albums since I heard it back in ‘76!

Fantastic interview. What a giant McCoy was. Thank you Brett.

So I listened to and enjoyed his burt bacharach album for years, and a version of favourite things (with grant green) on some compilation album. Zero knowledge about his original body of work. Much later on, I came across Atlantis and… woah. Then came Fly with the Wind, Echoes of a Friend, Dimensions, Ballads and Blues. ENLIGHTENMENT. An endless river of music.

One of my favorite pianist... in the history of Jazz Musicians... i see in concert for inauguration Bluenote (Milano),ad lake Maggiore Jazz Festival with Bobby Hutchetson... Great !!!

Wow! What a beautiful piece and interview to start my day with here! This brings back so many memories and hits of some of my favorite recordings of McCoy during a very influential period in both our lives. Sonny Fortune’s playing on Saraha was so fiery! Such a fine interview as well! I’m going to go back and revisit these recordings after seeing this now. I have them all on vinyl too ;-) Super cool that Julien Priester is mentioned as well! He’s a wonderful fixture of the Seattle jazz community. Thank you Bret! These interviews and videos of yours are outstanding!

Piano G.O.A.T. 🐐 🏆 🎹

Superb!!

I can't really say what is in McCoy's music that is so totally captivating... It's a sort of fire fueled by a grooving sense of time that speaks directly to one's soul. Impossible to resist, thank you Master 🔥🙏🔥

Great stuff! I got to see McCoy in the seventies many times at the greatest jazz club Keystone Korner in San Francisco. On one occasion Stanley Turrentines band was the opener. He always had great drummers and me being a drummer would rarely miss him. Billy Hart was one that I saw him with and Eric Gravatte was another; both heavy hitters. McCoy was playing really heavy and the whole bandstand was quite physical. One time he broke a string in the piano (a high register string) where it rattled around till someone could cut it out. What great memories!!

When I first heard McCoy on record I kNew he was force and there was the wall of sound piano thing. I saw him and band at the Village Vanguard I stayed for both sets and finally had to leave at 2 or so in the morning and they were still blazing away! This was probably 1976. Anyway I saw him again in early 80s at Jacob's Pillow a very classical place in rural Massachusetts. It was a very different venue in a barn with the back of the building open to nature and the music was very cerebral and reflected the setting very chamber music like. Thanks for this.

A true legend

great!

Sahara was a big influence on me.

"Horizon" is very underrated. One of my favorite McCoy Tyner albums. Hard to choose. "Enlightenment" is powerful. Don't see much discussion about "Trident". Everyone needs "The Real McCoy".

Keepnews talks about McCoy prior to his success as if he didn't already have a strong identity as a player. He was powerful and well-developed on the Julian Priester album. This is precisely why non-players and producer's opinions should never be taken seriously. They don't see talent the same way talent sees talent..... They only see money. To hell with em...

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Chick Correa , Keith Jarret , Herbie Hancock , Joe Zawinal , all came through Chicago , but Mccoy with Sonny Fortune , Alphonce Mouzon and Junie Booth , swung on a higher leval than any of those guys . He was one of the hardest swingig pianists ever . Big jazz influence .

(So THAT'S what Orrin Keepnews looks like! I've often wondered!! I had always assumed from his surname that he's either fully or partly of Native American descent (???))