McCoy Tyner discography

This discography of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner contains albums that were released under his own name as well as albums on which he appeared.

As leader/co-leader

Recording date	Title	Label	Year Released	Notes
1962-01-10, -11	Inception	Impulse!	1962
1962-11-14	Reaching Fourth	Impulse!	1963
1963-03-04	Nights of Ballads & Blues	Impulse!	1963
1963-07-05	Live at Newport	Impulse!	1964	Live at the Newport Jazz Festival
1963-06-04, 1964-02-04	Today and Tomorrow	Impulse!	1964
1964-12-02, -07, -08	McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington	Impulse!	1965
1966-04	Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (with Joe Henderson)	Blue Note	2024	Live at Slugs' Saloon
1967-04-21	The Real McCoy	Blue Note	1967
1967-12-01	Tender Moments	Blue Note	1968
1968-05-17	Time for Tyner	Blue Note	1969
1968-08-23	Expansions	Blue Note	1970
1970-02-09	Extensions	Blue Note	1973
1968-11-22, 1969-04-04, 1970-07-21	Cosmos	Blue Note	1976
1970-09-10	Asante	Blue Note	1974
1972-01	Sahara	Milestone	1972
1972-11-11	Echoes of a Friend	JVC, Milestone	1972
1972-09-06, 1972-11-27	Song for My Lady	Milestone	1973
1973-04-06, -09	Song of the New World	Milestone	1973
1973-07-07	Enlightenment	Milestone	1973	[2LP] Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1974-03-26, -28	Sama Layuca	Milestone	1974
1974-08-31, 1974-09-01	Atlantis	Milestone	1975	[2LP] Live at the Keystone Korner
1975-02-18, -19	Trident	Milestone	1975
1976-01-19 – -21	Fly with the Wind	Milestone	1976
1976-08-04 – -07	Focal Point	Milestone	1976
1977-04-09 – -12	Supertrios	Milestone	1977
1977-09-01, -02, -06, -07, -08	Inner Voices	Milestone	1977
1978-03-17, -18	The Greeting	Milestone	1978	Live at the Great American Music Hall
1978-07-28	Passion Dance	Milestone	1978	Live at Live Under the Sky
1978-07-28	Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo	Milestone	2004	Live at Live Under the Sky
1978-08-31, 1978-09-03	Together	Milestone	1979
1979-04-24, -25	Horizon	Milestone	1980
1980-03-03, -05, -06, 1980-05-29	Quartets 4 X 4	Milestone	1980
1980-10	13th House	Milestone	1981
1981	La Leyenda de La Hora	Columbia	1981
1982	Looking Out	Columbia	1982
1982-04-13, -14	Love & Peace (with Elvin Jones) (also released as Reunited)	Trio (Japan)	1982
1983-10	Dimensions	Elektra/Musician	1984
1985-04-06, -07	It's About Time (with Jackie McLean)	Blue Note	1985
1985	Just Feelin'	Palo Alto	1985
1986-06-07, -09	Double Trios	Denon	1986
1987-04-27 – -29	Major Changes (with Frank Morgan)	Blue Note	1987
1987-06-09	Bon Voyage	Timeless	1987
1987-07-09	Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane	Impulse!	1988
1987-07-24, -25	Live at the Musicians Exchange Cafe (also released as What's New?, The Real McCoy, and Hip Toe)	Who's Who in Jazz	1988	Live at The Musicians Exchange Cafe, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1988-10-25, 26, -27	Revelations	Blue Note	1989	Live at Merkin Hall, NYC
1988-11-25, -26	Uptown/Downtown	Milestone	1989	Live at the Blue Note, NYC
1989-05-19, -20	Live at Sweet Basil	Paddle Wheel	1989	Live at the Sweet Basil, NYC
1989-05-19, -20	Live at Sweet Basil Vol.2	Paddle Wheel	1990	Live at the Sweet Basil, NYC
1989-11-02, -27	Things Aint What They Used to Be	Blue Note	1990	Live at Kaufman Music Center, NYC
1990-04-18	One on One (with Stéphane Grappelli)	Milestone	1990
1991-02-11, -12	Blue Bossa	Milestone	1991
1991-02-11, -12	Autumn Mood	Laserlight	1997
1991-2-19 – -21	Soliloquy	Blue Note	1992
1991-02-27, -28	Remembering John	Enja	1991
1991-04-03, -04	New York Reunion	Chesky	1991
1991-05-11	44th Street Suite	Red Baron	1991
1991-06-14	Solar: Live at Sweet Basil	Alfa	1991	Live at the Sweet Basil, NYC
1991-06-14	Key of Soul	Alfa/Sweet Basil	1992	Live at the Sweet Basil, NYC
1991-10-24 – -27	Live in Warsaw (also released as Warsaw Concert 1991, At the Warsaw Jamboree and Beautiful Love)	Who's Who in Jazz	1991	Live at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree
1991-11-19, -20	The Turning Point	Birdology	1992
1993-05-24 – -27	Journey	Birdology	1993
1993-12-03, -04	Manhattan Moods (with Bobby Hutcherson)	Blue Note	1994
1994-11-26, -27	Prelude and Sonata	Milestone	1995
1995-04-12 – -14	Infinity	Impulse!	1995
1996-03-05, -06	What the World Needs Now: The Music of Burt Bacharach	Impulse!	1997
1997-09-23	McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard	Impulse!	2001	Live at the Village Vanguard, NYC
1998-07-29, -30	McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars	Telarc	1999
1999-04-28, -29	McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster	Telarc	2000
2000-06-13, -14	Jazz Roots	Telarc	2000
2002-12-10, -11	Land of Giants	Telarc	2003
2003-11-18, -19	Illuminations	Telarc	2004
2006-12-30, -31	Quartet	McCoy Tyner Music	2007	Live at Yoshi's, Oakland
2006-09-07, -25	Guitars	McCoy Tyner Music	2008
2007-05-06	Solo: Live from San Francisco	McCoy Tyner Music	2009	Live at the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Compilations

• The Best of McCoy Tyner (Blue Note, 1996) – recorded 1967–1970
• Solar: Live at Sweet Basil (Alfa/Sweet Basil, 1997) – combined the same title album (1991) and Key of Soul (1992)
• The Best of the McCoy Tyner Big Band (Birdology/Dreyfus Jazz, 2002) – combined The Turning Point (1992) and Journey (1993)
• Afro Blue (Telarc, 2007) – recorded 1998–2003

As sideman

with John Coltrane Coltrane Plays the Blues (Atlantic, 1962) – rec. 1960 Coltrane Jazz (Atlantic, 1961) – only on "Village Blues" Coltrane's Sound (Atlantic, 1964) – rec. 1960 My Favorite Things (Atlantic, 1961) Olé Coltrane (Atlantic, 1961) Africa/Brass (Impulse!, 1961) Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961 Coltrane (Impulse!, 1962) Ballads (Impulse!, 1963) – rec. 1961–62 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse!, 1963) Impressions (Impulse!, 1963) Live at Birdland (Impulse!, 1963) Crescent (Impulse!, 1964) A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) – rec. 1964 The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse!, 1965) The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse!, 1965) – live Ascension (Impulse!, 1966) – rec. 1965 New Thing at Newport (Impulse!, 1966) – live rec. 1965 Meditations (Impulse!, 1966) – rec. 1965 Kulu Sé Mama (Impulse!, 1967) – rec. 1965 Om (Impulse!, 1968) – rec. 1965 The Coltrane Legacy (Atlantic, 1970) – compilation of outtakes rec. 1959–61 Transition (Impulse!, 1970) – rec. 1965 Sun Ship (Impulse!, 1971) – rec. 1965 Afro Blue Impressions (Pablo, 1977) – rec. 1963 First Meditations (Impulse!, 1977) – rec. 1965 To the Beat of a Different Drum (Impulse!, 1978) – rec. 1963–65 Like Sonny (Roulette, 1990) – rec. 1960 and released in original form in 1962 Living Space (Impulse!, 1998) – rec. 1965 So Many Things: The European Tour 1961 (Acrobat, 2015) - rec. 1961 Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!, 2019) – rec. 1963 Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Impulse!, 2023) - rec. 1961 with Curtis Fuller 1959: Imagination (Savoy, 1960) 1960: Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960) with Grant Green 1964: Matador (Blue Note, 1979) 1964: Solid (Blue Note, 1979) with Freddie Hubbard 1960: Open Sesame (Blue Note, 1960) 1960: Goin' Up (Blue Note, 1961) 1961: Ready for Freddie (Blue Note, 1962) 1965–66: Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1967)[1] with Joe Henderson 1963: Page One (Blue Note, 1963) 1964: In 'N Out (Blue Note, 1965) 1964: Inner Urge (Blue Note, 1966) with Bobby Hutcherson 1966: Stick-Up! (Blue Note, 1968) 1981–82: Solo / Quartet (Contemporary, 1982) with Milt Jackson 1964: In a New Setting (Limelight, 1965) 1964–65: I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965) – 1 track with Hank Mobley 1965: A Caddy for Daddy (Blue Note, 1967) 1966: A Slice of the Top (Blue Note, 1979) 1966: Straight No Filter (Blue Note, 1985) with Lee Morgan 1964: Tom Cat (Blue Note, 1980) 1966: Delightfulee (Blue Note, 1967) with Wayne Shorter 1964: Night Dreamer (Blue Note, 1964) 1964: JuJu (Blue Note, 1965) 1965: The Soothsayer (Blue Note, 1979) with Stanley Turrentine 1964: Mr. Natural (Blue Note, 1980) 1966: Rough 'n' Tumble (Blue Note, 1966) 1966: Easy Walker (Blue Note, 1968) 1966: The Spoiler (Blue Note, 1967) 1967: A Bluish Bag (Blue Note, 2007) 1967: The Return of the Prodigal Son (Blue Note, 2008)

with others George Benson, Tenderly (Warner Bros., 1989) Art Blakey, A Jazz Message (Impulse! 1964) – rec. 1963 John Blake, Jr., Maiden Dance (Gramavision, 1984) – rec. 1983 Donald Byrd, Mustang! (Blue Note, 1967) – rec. 1966 Eric Dolphy, 1961 (Jazz Connoisseur, late 1970s) – rec. 1961 Lou Donaldson, Lush Life (Blue Note, 1980) – rec. 1967 Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960) Steve Grossman, In New York (Dreyfus Jazz, 1993) – rec. 1991 J. J. Johnson, Proof Positive (Impulse!, 1964) – 1 track Blue Mitchell, Heads Up (Blue Note, 1968) – rec. 1967 David Murray, Special Quartet (DIW/Columbia, 1990) Julian Priester, Spiritsville (Jazzland, 1960) Flora Purim, Encounter (Milestone, 1977) – rec. 1976 Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, Milestone Jazzstars in Concert (Milestone, 1978) Avery Sharpe, Unspoken Words (Sunnyside, 1989) – rec. 1988 Woody Shaw, Jackie McLean, Cecil McBee, and Jack DeJohnette, One Night with Blue Note Preserved Volume Two (Blue Note, 1985) Sonny Stitt, Loose Walk (Musica Jazz/Philology, 1993) – rec. 1966

References

1. "Album Reviews: Jazz". Billboard. February 18, 1967.

• McCoy Tyner Discography Project accessed March 24, 2009
• McCoy Tyner Sessionography accessed March 24, 2009

External links

• McCoy Tyner discography discography at Discogs