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    A Voice With 10 Fingers

    Apr 03, 2020 3 minutes
    COLIN FLEMING

    McCoy Tyner, one of the most innovative and influential pianists in the history of jazz, an NEA Jazz Master, and the last surviving member of John Coltrane’s epochal early-1960s quartet, died March 6 at his New Jersey home. He was 81. In the hours after Tyner’s passing was announced, JT contributor Colin Fleming wrote this appreciation.

    If you came of musical age on rock & roll, as I did, and you then turned to jazz, chances are as high

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