RIP McCoy Tyner, a giant of American music. A major DTM essay from two years ago: “McCoy Tyner’s Revolution.” Two important publications have quoted this bit from the above piece: "No one — not Art Tatum, not Powell, not Monk, not Bill Evans — dropped a bomb on jazz pianists quite like McCoy Tyner. There was pre-McCoy and post-McCoy, and that was all she rote."
TT 48: McCoy Tyner, Hands and Feet
TT 48: McCoy Tyner, Hands and Feet
TT 48: McCoy Tyner, Hands and Feet
RIP McCoy Tyner, a giant of American music. A major DTM essay from two years ago: “McCoy Tyner’s Revolution.” Two important publications have quoted this bit from the above piece: "No one — not Art Tatum, not Powell, not Monk, not Bill Evans — dropped a bomb on jazz pianists quite like McCoy Tyner. There was pre-McCoy and post-McCoy, and that was all she rote."