jason hirschhorn's @MusicREDEF: 03/09/2020 - Remembering McCoy Tyner, How Austin Canceled SXSW, Cloud Credits, Lil Uzi Vert, Dixie Chicks...

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Tyner plays some things on the piano, but I don't know what they are. Is this interest remix not displaying correctly? | View it in your browser. McCoy Tyner at the Jazz Showcase, Chicago, 1970s. (Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Archive Photos/Getty Images) Monday - March 09, 2020 Mon - 03/09/20 "Tyner plays some things on the piano, but I don't know what they are." -  John Coltrane, on McCoy Tyner, the pianist in his classic quartet rantnrave:// You could no more separate MCCOY TYNER's two hands—his dominant left, mapping changes and implying and inviting harmonies, and his skittering right, prone to fantastical solo runs—than you could separate him and the other three jazz giants who constituted JOHN COLTRANE's classic early-'60s quartet. "We functioned like one person," Tyner once said. "It wasn't like we were four guys on stage doing his own particular kind of thing. It had to be in relationship to the total." A recipe for jazz, and for life. Tyner's style, including his signature, ambiguous fourth chords, left plenty of harmonic space for his bandmates to explore, and he knew intuitively how to react and respond in turn. He was a talker, as it were, and the conversations between four men pushing and prodding one another along were the stuff of jazz history. Tyner's piano was frequently the moderator. "When you are thinking of Coltrane playing 'MY FAVORITE THINGS' or 'A LOVE SUPREME,'" the NEW YORK TIMES' BEN RATLIFF wrote on Friday, "you may be thinking of the sound of Mr. Tyner almost as much as that of Coltrane's saxophone." Tyner, who died Friday at 81, was the last surviving member of that quartet. He left in 1965, when Coltrane expanded his band and headed further into free jazz. Tyner said he couldn't hear himself anymore in the conversation. A long, varied half-century of recordings as (mostly) a bandleader—with his own bigger bands, with strings, with flutes, solo, covering BURT BACHARACH—followed. It cemented and expanded Tyner's reputation as one of jazz's foundational pianists, even if it took a minute or two for the world to catch on. Circa the late '60s and early '70s, as Ratliff notes, Tyner thought about becoming a cab driver. He died, many decades later, driving a very different kind of vehicle and still conversing like your favorite cabbie all along. RIP... I'm not the first to point out that last week was devastating to two of the capitals of live music in the US, with the tornado that tore through Nashville and the canceling of this year's SXSW to preempt the possibility of the coronavirus tearing through Austin. This is an especially good week to see live music, whether it means supporting a favorite band or exploring a new one. And/or buy music and merch. In Nashville, BRANDI CARLILE, JASON ISBELL, SHERYL CROW, SOCCER MOMMY and many others are playing a benefit tonight, and other stars have pitched in with big contributions of their own, as a city fights back against Mother Nature. The ripples of the SXSW cancellation have reached well beyond Austin, as bands who planned release schedules and touring schedules around the festival are working on their Plan B's. Others are going ahead with modified Plan A's, as various clubs are working to put on a kind of shadow SXSW, trying to do their part not just to salvage their own season, but the season of an entire city's live music infrastructure. Music heals, always... COACHELLA and STAGECOACH are still officially on, although local officials say the situation is "very fluid." A hospital on Saturday reported the Coachella Valley's first coronavirus case. GLASTONBURY is also still a go... COLDPLAY at NPR's TINY DESK... RIP also STEVE WEBER of the HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS. - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator continental club Austin American-Statesman Inside the situation room: How Austin officials decided to cancel SXSW by Tony Plohetski The cancellation - the first in SXSW's 34 years - ended more than a week of behind-the-scenes efforts to try to keep the festival afloat. Austin American-Statesman Loss of SXSW a gut punch for some Austin businesses by Bob Sechler, Lori Hawkins and Shonda Novak Cancellation of the event is a financial gut punch for owners and employees of downtown bars, restaurants and concert venues, many of whom have come to rely on the influx of cash SXSW produces. Do the M@th McCoy Tyner's Revolution by Ethan Iverson As influential as he's been, there's something eternally mysterious about Tyner's vocabulary. 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MUSIC OF THE DAY YouTube "The Discovery" McCoy Tyner From "Echoes of a Friend" (1972). RIP. "REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'" — @JasonHirschhorn REDEF, Inc. NY - LA - EVERYWHERE redef.com YOU DON'T GET IT? Subscribe Unsubscribe/Manage My Subscription FOLLOW REDEF ON © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group