![]() ![]() Tyner departed Coltrane’s band in 1965 because he felt it was getting too loud and jumbled.Ī watershed pianist, Tyner was a central influence on his colleagues and younger musicians during his lifetime, and will remain so after it. All jazz keyboardists refer to him in ways large or small, conscious or unconscious. Tyner made jazz history because he understood jazz history. As a teenager in musically rich Philadelphia, where Coltrane befriended the younger musician (twelve years his junior), Tyner became obsessed with the bebop greats, Bud Powell and Thelonius Monk. These two occupied opposite ends of the modern jazz spectrum, from the fleet to the sparse, and Tyner learned important lessons from both. In his Jazz Roots solo album of 2000, Tyner offered his appreciation of, and creative response to, his forbears-not just Powell and Monk, but also Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and others.
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