Research Catalog

Title

An evening with GRAMMY award-winner McCoy Tyner in conversation with Robert Santelli, Executive Director of The GRAMMY Museum [videorecording].

Author

Tyner, McCoy.

Publication

2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Santelli, Robert.
• Ward, Penny
• Hines, Kay.
• Loewinger, Lawrence.
• GRAMMY Museum.
• National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (U.S.). New York chapter.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Description

1 videodisc (77 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

McCoy Tyner discusses being born and raised in West Philadelphia; mother working as a beautician; kind and supportive neighborhood; using mother's beauty shop as a rehearsal space; setting up a band and playing for customers with brother Jarvis; jazz musicians catching wind of these beauty shop gigs and stopping by; starting to play piano at age 13; growing up in the 1940s; studying ballet and African dancing as a teenager; influence of church and studying classics such as Bach and Beethoven; Bud Powell moving into the neighborhood; following Powell through the streets with his friends; Powell once playing Tyner's piano and listening in on the beauty shop practices; meeting John Coltrane at age 17; first impression of Coltrane who was playing with Miles Davis at the time; Coltrane coming in to a beauty shop jam session and later asking Tyner to join his band; listening and trying to support Coltrane's sounds; naming Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell as main influences; life on the road; how being on the road is his schooling - his college; recording My favorite things with Coltrane; Coltrane as band leader; constantly challenged to follow Coltrane; music as life, as a product of feeling; The real McCoy in 1967; Bob Thiele encouraging solo work; how writing and composing tells him what he is about at the time of writing; aspiring to be the kind of band leader that is an inspiration and feels like a big brother or friend; Sahara in 1972 when experimenting with sounds influenced by earlier classical and African music used during dance lessons in his youth; working with Burt Bacharach; flexibility in music as a way to constantly be challenging yourself, learning and growing.

Series Statement

Duke jazz talks

Subjects

• Tyner, McCoy > Interviews
• John Coltrane Quartet
• Powell, Bud > Influence
• Pianists > Interviews
• Thiele, Bob > Influence
• Monk, Thelonious > Influence
• Jazz > Performances
• Coltrane, John, 1926-1967 > Influence

Note

• Duke jazz talks is a collaboration between The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The GRAMMY Museum, and The Recording Academy®, New York chapter.
• Copy of program available under *LDCO 676.
• Separate audio recording of this performance is held under *LDCO 676.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Oct. 29, 2008, by Penny Ward and Kay Hines ; sound engineer, Larry Loewinger.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

[Opening announcements (0:00-7:39)] -- [Interview (7:40-56:57)] -- [Question and answer (56:58-65:20)] -- Piano performance (65:21-76:34).

Call Number

*LDV 1233

OCLC

298261237

Author

Tyner, McCoy.

Title

An evening with GRAMMY award-winner McCoy Tyner in conversation with Robert Santelli, Executive Director of The GRAMMY Museum [videorecording].

Imprint

2008.

Series

Duke jazz talks

Event

Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Oct. 29, 2008, by Penny Ward and Kay Hines ; sound engineer, Larry Loewinger.

Performer

McCoy Tyner, interviewee, piano ; Robert Santelli, interviewer.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Santelli, Robert. Interviewer

Ward, Penny, videographer.

Hines, Kay. Videographer

Loewinger, Lawrence. Recording engineer

GRAMMY Museum.

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (U.S.). New York chapter.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Research Call Number

*LDV 1233