Music Lives 365: December 11 McCoy Tyner

When a man’s faith is never tried, I don’t think he’ll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
— McCoy Tyner

Here from 1957, McCoy Tyner’s piano work is a decisive, lace embroidery, floating , buoying, Coltrane’s gentile saxophone.

Mr. Harpo

In 1966, through the auspices of radio station WPTR, Albany, Troy and Schenectady, this little number became a mainstay at the high school dances.

An epoch defining group inspired by master multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones.

You could play a hundred things from this guy. Once he got it he never lost it.