Word: tyner
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...Friday trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, flutist Hubert Laws and pianist McCoy Tyner move in. Hubbard dazzled Harvard crowds last year when he coached music and stood up President Bok in The Learning for Performers Series. Hubbard has not progressed as much as hoped for from the time he broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite...
...best example of that problem this year is the Communist Party, which is running Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner on the ballot in 20 states, but not in Massachusetts. Although they collected upwards of 50,000 in the petition drive last spring that had signature-seekers posted on every corner in the Square, Massachusetts refused to allow them on the ballot. Peter Halfkenney, a member of the Massachusetts C.P. district committee, says he has little choice but to attribute the state's actions against the Communists to red-baiting--there is still a law on the state books, after...
Other musical performers enlisted by the program include trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist McCoy Tyner, reedman Rahsaan Roland Kirk and trumpeters Quincy Jones and Nat Adderly...
...legacy of John Coltrane returns to the Jazz Workshop this week in the form of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. The romantic Tyner is capable of tremendous staccato outbursts, especially after he is warmed up (probably around the third of three shows each night). He'll be in town until Sunday at the Jazz Workshop on 733 Boylston...
Last spring Tyner spent part of his five-day Boston tenure giving the audience a preview of his blistering Atlantis album. This time the playing will be more varied. Tyner's supporting staff, traditionally composed of the best music men around, like tenor saxman Azar Lawrence, complement the man who learned the true value of interaction with the master himself, Coltrane. Three shows nightly...