McCoy Tyner — Guitars

All About Jazz:

Pianist McCoy Tyner’s dramatic arpeggios, thunderous bass pulses and modulated chord voicings have inspired generations of aspiring jazz musicians. An acoustic purist who sustained a viable career through the heavily electrified fusion era, Tyner has maintained impressive consistency in his performances and recordings since his seminal tenure in John Coltrane’s classic mid-sixties quartet.Tyner’s vast discography includes relatively few guitar wielding side-men; Guitars, then, is unique in Tyner’s oeuvre as it contains a rotating roster of high profile guitarists, featuring Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Derek Trucks and banjo wizard Bela Fleck.(more…)