The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with McCoy Tyner

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

OralHistoryResource

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with McCoy Tyner

9/16/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.164

Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner (1938 - ) is a legendary jazz musician and was a member of the famed John Coltrane Quartet. Tyner has made over eighty recordings and has won five Grammy Awards. Tyner was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/16/2004, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 09m 48s

The HistoryMakers

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11635077

The HistoryMakers

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Tyner, Mccoy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6183cz4 (person)

Phenomenal jazz pianist McCoy Tyner was born December 11, 1938, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of parents with roots in North Carolina. Tyner attended Martha Washington Grade School and Sulzberger Jr. High School. Tyner, with the encouragement of his teacher Ms. Addison and his mother, Beatrice Stephenson Tyner, began taking beginning piano lessons from a neighbor, Mr. Habershaw. Later, a Mr. Beroni taught Tyner classical piano. Although inspired by the music of Art Tatum and Thelonius Monk, it ...