McCoy Tyner - Mr. P.C.

[jarbasg1]

As times goes by,better and better and better and better...WOW!!!!!!!!!!

[roflattheworld]

awesome, but a little too bangy for my liking

[Aiira91]

awesome !

[peskypesky]

genius

[OrquestaSonDelPuerto]

omg!!! awesome such a big improvisation of such a small song and motive!!! O_O, not only that, he's so fast that the video its lagging!!!! i have this sheet, one page so its not that long, but still its a pretty cool song.

[azaryd]

amazing!!!!! one of my all-time favorite pianists ever! love McCoy!

[Zeskates32]

So So So sick! He's a much different player nowadays due to his old age, but he still a monster on piano. Just not as many runs as he used to do.

[250Yogi]

the boss

[jarbasg1]

This fabulous musician played this song with Coltrane a lot.Today he plays with the song like a kid with a toy.He has fun.He does what he wants to do.He was selected by the best musician I've seen in my life to play with him.That's all.Regards from Rio de janeiro/Brazil.

[litlewing]

real living legend

[pooperscoopr69]

I caught McCoy in concert some three years past. Resplendent!

[FunkySkunk90]

It's a shame that only a few people (us) are able to enjoy and appreciate the power, skill and emotion of McCoy Tyner. Makes me pretty sad.

[christianitzchakylar]

@gigijazzygirl or maybe they just find it annoying that the sound doesn't fit the video.. don't tell people what "real music" is

[gigijazzygirl]

@christianitzchakylar i meant to delete the first line.. i agree with you because the sound doesn't fit the video. but the way mccoy plays the song is amazing.

ignore the first line of my comment, i meant to delete that.

[hatguy24]

Fucking Amazing!!!

[JazzmanJibilla]

They take their jazz pretty seriously in Hamburg. I was reading somewhere they have a radio station dedicated to playing only artists that are playing in the city so it's a chance to hear a lot of stuff and then see the artist live.

Don't think I've ever heard anything Tyner did that wasn't first rate. With that little ponytail he's a piana Ninja.

[mrblitz00]

Seriously, this at least somewhat reminds me of Rachmaninov, but with more of a groove.. The cascade of beautiful notes reminds me of Rachmaninov.

[17205513]

the real deal

[LinkBulletBill]

...I can't play like that...

MUST LEARN HOW!

MUST MASTER!

[FunkySkunk90]

@LinkBulletBill

I guess nearly noone's able to play like McCoy Tyner.

[LinkBulletBill]

@FunkySkunk90

he's basically playing and improvising through this song as if it was nothing, :O

[FunkySkunk90]

This is wonderful. Mr. P.C. was dedicated to Paul Chambers, right ?

[greenysfleetwoodmac]

Yeah thats right! a damn fine bassplayer he was

[UltraMN]

Ain't nobody else can play it like that!

[DajaWaja]

I saw him live in Alicante!!!! What a experience!!!!

[nick11link]

McCoy's playing is pure, unadulterated hip

[CharlieKendallMusic]

If you guys get the chance check out my cover please! I'm just a kid and I want to go to Berklee one day so I'm trying to get some feedback. Thanks!

[IdAnIsS]

@CharlieKendallMusic

Berklee is a great school but youshould check out New School NYC. they teach jazz in a higher level. good luck man

[rotempick]

Have you any idea where is this place, I know it's in Hamburg..

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[rotempick]

Have you any idea where is this place, I know it's in Hamburg..

[driedstr]

love the dynamic control

[helluvagun]

@driedstr

Right! But he has so much more!

[oslojoe]

you know you're good when you have sweat dropping from your head onto the keyboard.

see my mind on the floor? it just got blown.

[smix86]

This man isn't human!

[mrblitz00]

ooh yeah!

[piano12161770]

so bad

[germzneverdie]

this guy has two brains

[brikzmaster]

@germzneverdie Indeed he does, the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere connected by the corpus callosum

[videnteloco]

@germzneverdie two brains and for hands : )

[zumix29]

神人級！

[lucadepu]

級神人人

[Disagista]

oh my god!...

[rrichko5049]

outstanding

[yerdadnyermam]

hahaha jazz bastards

[Peanutpaw]

scheveningen, you're wrong

[Pirula3]

you obviously don't know much about jazz, 4scheveningen, do you...? it's ok, you will learn, just be patient my friend....

[videolover61]

You MUST be a non-musician. McCoy has it all! He is a voice, and is a grand master. You can like whatever you like but your dumb-dumb comments is in the minority...SO KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF! Cause YOU know nothing!!!

[AshwinManOfSteel]

@videolover61 lol, who were you responding to??... :P :P :P Classic Response! :D

[examinfo]

tatum,Monk,tyner Remember that

[UppinDisma]

PETERSON MAAANNN!!!

[Rakazan]

thanks :)

[whykatera81]

i hear hes not doing so good anymore. dementia i believe. I hope im blessed to see him perform before he leaves.

[zbouaerg]

Sad thing. I too would enjoy watching him live, he's one of the few giants left.

About the arguments above, if you disagree on the fact that jazz is mostly a black man's music, you gotta either be blind or dumb.

Even though it might have latin and/or european influences, almost all of the major players, definers and innovators were black.

I mean, wtf...? Are you trying to impress us with your peculiar opinions?

ougk

[videolover61]

@whykatera81

Get the story straight. McCoy had a stroke a few years ago. I hear he's doing better and sounding great...

[Hanz780]

@videolover61 Damn he had a stroke? He sounds fucking brilliant for having a stroke.

[kujofox]

I love how you jazz musicians argue and fight over stuff.

that aside, great vid.

[kujofox]

huh?

[rfmusic215]

Yeah ok. As far as I'm concerned, Bach was one of the best bop players that ever lived

[elvind222]

He is also considered by many the first jazz musician.

[videolover61]

@elvind222

Bach? NOT!!! Bach did improvise but he can not take credit as the first jazz musician. Black people started jazz...

[darkmaides]

besides charlie Parker all the musicians u said weren't jazz contributes they were people who took jazz to a different place which is called Bop, black musicians that contributed to original jazz were duke Ellington and count Basie etc..

[jazzingbert]

Fantasic music, wonderful player, thank god for this...................

[mollinrc]

jazz is not racist, you are

[elguitaro]

Clark Terry: "A note don't care who blows it, no matter if you're white, black, purple or opaque." Grow up, guys.

[cab18141814]

I love Tyner's style . . . good example of his style around 1:48 to 2:40. Pure bliss. Thanks for posting this.

[rad2tm]

He's fast. That's about all I can say in favour, I'm unimpressed with the music of this. Mr. PC is a nice enough track, somewhat butchered by the 'speed jazz' element here.

[darkmaides]

doesn't matter how fast he plays its what he plays..genius.

[phantomfireNL]

I love youtube

and his discussions

[Rakazan]

Kennt einer den Klub, in dem das aufgenommen wurde? / Does anyone know the club where this track was recorded at?

[boomshel23]

The location is the Fabrik in Hamburg, Germany.

[TheCanadianScreamer]

You are a dumbass. Not only is that a ridiculous and grotesque racial generalization, it's also wrong.

[Jazzboogaloo]

i hope that was to Modes9!

[TheCanadianScreamer]

It absolutely was to modes9. My bad JB should have specified.

[SSJBartSimpson]

if you are talking about the black particaption in the art than he is right, the majority of jazz musicians were black, it's not a bad thing at all. but if you're not, than never mind, sorry.

[Jazzboogaloo]

nice rhythm changes playing. McCoy really knows what he's doing

[polzst09]

rhythm changes are 32 bars, but mr pc is a 12 bar blues

i wasn't counting what tyner was doing, did he extend the form? or did he condense, and add a lot of 1 6 2 5 1 to the 12 bar form?

[Jazzboogaloo]

yeah he plays the head as a blues but then solos over rhythm changes. Sick.

[mmalis]

no that isn't true.

[Jazzboogaloo]

man you need to clear your ears out. I love the way he qoutes I Got Rhythm

[mmalis]

he's still not playing rhythm changes. he stretches the blues form, but it's definitely a blues.

[Jazzboogaloo]

it's definately a minor blues, its not rhythm changes what are yo talking about

[patrickn101]

This should not be made into a racial argument. Music is influenced from everywhere. Without African music, rhythm would be a joke, and without European music, harmonies would be nonexistent. Also, jazz is an aquired taste. I just recently got into it, but only after taking the time to really listen. And McCoy totally kicked ass with that.

[jamyro22]

I agree with everyone. I add just one thing: music exist in Africa long time ago before european music.If you listen to "in the ginza" ,"the egyptian" by Art blackey's band with Lee morgan & john Gilmore,sound as pygmies music.For the history, check out right here on YT, "pygmy dancers",pygmies dance jazz", "the nuba people" & also "joseph boulogne" a french black classical musician who is older than mozart.

[GOTIRES]

Do your homework sunderlanding."Jazz is an extension out of our african roots'a quote by pianist clarence william.

[Sunderlanding]

Of course it's an extension of our African roots, but it's also an extension of our Europeon and Latin roots.

[jcksnparsons]

mccoy is the reason i took up piano

[willyvallez]

C'est un pianiste que j'apprécie et que je respecte énormément.

[Lasersharp24]

Americans do not appreciate jazz. Most have a mediocre at best understanding of what jazz really is. Jazz is popular in Canada, Europe, Japan and possibly even Australia.

[KJShackx]

americans do appreciate jazz. we're just going through a phase where a lot of people only appreciate what's on mtv and ignore everything else. we'll get over it.

[Lasersharp24]

Or course "some" Americans appreciate jazz.The music scene is going to get worse in America. The corporate executives who control the media will make sure that the public continues to be uneducated about jazz. After WWII, jazz was more appreciated in France than America and it is the same today.

[iyeqwrtu]

yeah, most Americans "appreciate" jazz, but they don't actually enjoy listening to jazz. They might respect jazz musicians, but they don't have Coltrane on their i-pod.

[shorterfootprints]

Jazz is the only thing on my ipod.

[Gettinghitonattheban]

True. Most Americans (Which I am) will say I like Jazz, but you put on some modal Jazz or Bop they'll hate it. Because there always expecting Jazz to be some swing or big band.

[Gettinghitonattheban]

If you think about it, the African Americans invented all of the music in western civilization in general.

[KJShackx]

they created blues which made jazz, rock, soul, r&b, etc., but what about classical music? they didn't create that

[Sunderlanding]

Actually if you really know what's going on you know that to be false. African americans were a major contributor to jazz, but it was a combination of all the peoples in America at the time. The South American community had just as much to do with creating jazz, as did the Europeons. I'm sick of ignorant people saying the Africans invented American music.

[Lasersharp24]

If it was not for the blacks suffering in slavery there would be no blues, therefore no jazz. The most influential eras of jazz were created by mostly blacks. Accept it. The blacks in slavery kept their scales and rythmns from Africa and that's how blues started.

[Sunderlanding]

Actually you are way off base. Jazz came out of ragtime and Latin music just as much as the blues. Stravinsky was putting minor thirds over top of major chords before the blues even existed. Sure if the blacks hadn't of contributed to American music jazz would definitely not be the same as it is now, but the same can be said for the Europeans and Latinos who were involved. Face it is was a group effort, and no particular race was more important then any other in the creation of jazz.

[Lasersharp24]

Indeed it was a group effort but blacks were still responsible for most of the beginning efforts and most important developments. Hmmmm so who was the latin/european equivalent of Tyner, Coltrane, Miles, Ellington, Louis Armstrong? It originated in New Orleans. Jazz is more than stacking thirds over chords, it is a way of playing that Stravinsky did NOT invent. Did not European jazz come AFTER jazz had already been invented? If not for blacks, jazz would not be what it is today.

[Sunderlanding]

All the players you mentioned came way after Jazz had already been invented. And let's not forget that all the innovators who were busy creating Jazz were doing it on European instruments. Yes believe it or not they didn't have pianos in Africa, and not only that they were all using the Well Tempered Clavier, a Germanic tuning system. Plus a lot the harmonic and rhythmic devices popular with the creation of Jazz were directly from Latin/European music.

[Sunderlanding]

And I never said Jazz was stacking minor thirds over major chords. That's the blues, and you were saying how important the Blues was as a stepping stone to Jazz. Which in some way's it is, but structurally the late Romantic period in European Music is closer to Jazz then anything the Africans were doing. There are chord progressions, scales, and rhythms which in a lot of ways define Jazz that were directly influenced from this period.

[Lasersharp24]

I was not saying that the harmonies and melodies that the black jazz musicians were using were not European/Latin. All I am saying is that the blacks took those elements and started jazz. I was once a classical musician, so I understand that.

[Sunderlanding]

No you said the Blacks were more important than the other two. I don't agree with that. Yes the Blacks were important, and without them Jazz wouldn't be the same. I've allready stated that, but you have to admit the Europeans and Latins were just as important. Take anyone of them out of the mix and Jazz just wouldn't be the same.

[Sunderlanding]

Ohh and yea. I love McCoys playing. He is by far my favourite Jazz pianist, and this is him in fine form. (Just thought I should make an actual comment on the video.)

[GOTIRES]

Actually Being an ethnomusigologist I understand that Ancient Balofon and Gyil and guitar banfori and marmba musicians from west Africa mostly used mixolodian,Dorian and pentatonic scales before jazz came about.

[GOTIRES]

To not no anything about african intruments and to claim that musical element of jazz came from europe is a way for whites to steal jazz as their music.

[GOTIRES]

To not no anything about african intruments and to claim that musical element of jazz came from europe is a way for whites to steal jazz as their music.Look at the way monk,tyner and taylor play and tell be if they are not influenced by african percussionist..

[SpencerMA89]

And then tell me if they are not influenced by white harmonies. There is no doubt in my mine that jazz is not the black man's music, to say otherwise is plain ignorant. Without white influence, however, jazz would not be what it is today. Think of all the theory of western music jazz has innovated upon. Whites even (although unknowingly), gave jazz its start...

[SpencerMA89]

...after the south lost in the civil war, the Confederate army made a hasty retreat. They left everything they did not need behind... including their instruments. This is the reason behind the orchestration of early jazz bands. And think of all the black musicians who used jazz as a way of venting the white's racism... Coltrane's Alabama, Mingus' Faubus Fables, the list could go on forever if I didn't run out of space, but you get the point. And whites should never take jazz as their own.

[GOTIRES]

listen no matter how much you don't want to admit it although black don't own jazz they created the music.Just as whites created classical.But music is music and anyone can play.

[GOTIRES]

listen no matter how much you don't want to admit it although black don't own jazz they created the music.Just as whites created classical.

[trombone77]

there are no equals to Tyner, Coltrane, Miles, Ellington, Louis Armstrong

[Superphilipp]

Bird, Monk, Bill Evans, Desmond and Clifford Brown beg to differ.

[helluvagun]

@Superphilipp

Awright Evans and Monk pianists as McCoy. I grant you that he can't overshadow those two! But why compare him to he rest in your list! Bird - alto, Brownie trumpet. Paul Desmond stands out as a minor figure by comparison to the rest, although a great alto, he doesn't fit in!

[iyeqwrtu]

you're oversimplifying too much.

[SSJBartSimpson]

actually american music derives from the blues more than anything else...

[Sunderlanding]

Bullshit.

[jazz1bro]

Gettinghit...Not only music. I saw a newspaper that attributed the earliest writings in this hemisphere to the Olmecs. They didn't show the features of the gigantic stone heads in Mexico which are thousands of years old.Look at them and figure out why.under Olmec civilization online. guess what it's part of a coverup by mis-identifying the origins of them.

[LyricSuite78]

"To not no anything about african intruments and to claim that musical element of jazz came from europe is a way for whites to steal jazz as their music"

No, it's simply stating a fact. Jazz harmony comes straight from European music (French impressionism in particular was a great influence), as do many of the instruments used (piano above all). Nobody is claiming that Jazz is an European art but it does have a strong connection with the latter.

[Chameleon41]

This goes to everybody here... you could probably end this discussion by providing some sources to back up any one of your points?

Just saying...

[blazneg2007]

You guys are all making yourselves sound dumb ENJOY THE MUSIC

[wdelisfort]

Americans Do Appreciate Jazz, Sadly not all Americans, but Americans do appreciate, especially those African Americans who truly invented it

[myoeman]

Brilliant. This song, normally is just a really easy boring song to play. He gives it some goddamn attitude. Simply brilliant.

[markseez]

The final at 3:42

[jgarvue]

McCoy is completely underestimated. I wish more people listened to albums like Sahara and The Real McCoy. It really sucks that other Americans would rather listen to boasting rap singers.

[stereoagentr826]

amen

[videomangrr]

Interesting, Mr. P.C. without a band. This is great

[Lasersharp24]

I'm American and it is true that Americans do not appreciate jazz. They would prefer to watch American Idol or listen to Britney Spears. McCoy Tyner is totally awesome.

[jltei]

ONLY 28 ratings and ONLY 4 stars average ,I can t believe it!!This is an exhaustive use of all the best things that happened in music ,kind of 300 years 'research outcome !!

[BassThrasher]

Sadly, people don't appreciate jazz anymore (well, only a few do).

McCoy Tyner is the best.

[physcie]

Americans don't appreciate jazz :( Everywhere else in the world does.

[jazzpiano10]

Yea thats a shame, especially considering we invented it. Is jazz really that big in the rest of the world though, with the youth? I really hope it is.

[lawrehnbahsihst]

Jazz is brilliant.

I live and breathe it.

And lots of kids, especially at my school love it.

[bahoss]

"Americans" don't appreciate Jazz because before we appreciate anything we need to give it time and effort and unfortunatly in America everything has to be quick and ready even in music, food, information, politics..etc..etc and it's wanted this way to keep the brain on vacation so the beast can be controlled easy.

God bless America the land of the free.

Peace.

[guitazz]

LOVE IT ! Thanks for posting this

[Tomcatom]

He's INSANE.

[vitamincory]

this guy has only gotten better with the years you can truly hear his advance in style and technique