McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner is one of those pianists who genuinely changed what the piano could do in jazz — and I don't say that lightly. Growing up in Philadelphia and coming up through the Philly scene, he landed one of the most coveted gigs in jazz history when he joined John Coltrane's classic quartet in 1960, and those recordings from that era — A Love Supreme, My Favorite Things, Ballads — still hit like a freight train six decades later. What I love about Tyner is that his left hand alone could fill a room; those dense, thunderous fourths and fifths he voiced weren't just accompaniment, they were architecture. After leaving Coltrane in 1965 he kept building, winning five Grammys and earning NEA Jazz Master status, and his influence on essentially every serious jazz pianist who followed him is impossible to overstate. He passed in March 2020, but the sound he built is permanent.

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Name (English)

McCoy Tyner

Name (Japanese)

マッコイ・タイナー

Reading

まっこい・たいなー

Born

December 11, 1938 – March 6, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

pianist / bandleader / composer / conductor / jazz musician

Awards & achievements

• NEA Jazz Masters

• Official sitehttps://www.mccoytyner.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy%20Tyner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318619

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• pianist
• bandleader
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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