Message #42546

[mccoy]

For a long time, I've been a huge fan of the great jazz pianist Mccoy Tyner, from whom my web moniker, mccoy, has been derived. I collected his albums, listened to his music, even attempted to imitate his style which is just about impossible, given his monster virtuosism.

You guys made me listen again to one of the best youtube videos, a solo concert in Hamburg, where he played John Coltrane's composition giant steps, harmonic jumps in major thirds, devised by this genius of modern music. Coltrane also read the autobiography of a Yogi and was a big fan of Yogananda's book, being inspired by the footnote on Myian Tansen and his nightly raga played by day, which made the imperial palace plunge into darkness. Coltrane had a fixation on this, obsession which lasted until his premature death.