McCoy Tyner, whose hypnotically thunderous piano behind John Coltrane's saxophone in the 1960s, starting with My Favorite Things in 1961, launched a keyboard revolution, died on March 6. He was 81. [Photo above of McCoy Tyner at Regattabar in Cambridge, Mass., on February 11, 2012, by Bruno Vasil]
Tyner's percussive, stampede-like attack and vast use of …
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