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Music Appreciation

The Polack MSgt

(13,189 posts) Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:13 PM Mar 2020

McCoy Tyner has passed

I am not a huge Jazz fan, as I've said here before - But I have friends who are and when they played this guy I sat up and noticed.

A giant talent. So big and bright even my ignorance couldn't obscure him. RIP Mr. Tyner

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McCoy Tyner has passed (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Mar 2020 OP

... Anon-C Mar 2020 #1

Played wiith Coltrane. Another jazz great gone. Sneederbunk Mar 2020 #2

Oh, man - sorry to hear this. klook Mar 2020 #3

Anon-C

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Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:21 PM

Mar 2020

Sneederbunk

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2. Played wiith Coltrane. Another jazz great gone.

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Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:44 PM

Mar 2020

klook

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3. Oh, man - sorry to hear this.

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Fri Mar 6, 2020, 05:27 PM

Mar 2020

I got to see him live a few times. He was a real titan.

Here he is with his quartet (Azar Lawrence on tenor saxophone, Joony Booth on bass, and Alphonse Mouzon on drums) at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival:

And here's another of my favorite compositions of McCoy's, the wonderful "Song of the New World" with a big band:

And lastly, with the classic John Coltrane Quartet (with Elvin Jones, drums, and Jimmy Garrison, bass) playing an intense version of "My Favorite Things ":

RIP.

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