He didn't talk that much, but just being around him was great. Powell suffered some racial misfortunes in the city of brotherly love, but he had family there and for a while he lived in an apartment around the corner from Tyner's house. One day Tyner came home from school and found bebop legend Bud Powell sitting in the shop playing that piano. The shop was the biggest room we had, so that's where the piano went.' We lived behind the beauty shop and upstairs of it. About a year after I started she said okay, you seem like you really want to play, so I'll buy you one. 'My mother loved piano, she liked to hear it. People say Bach was an improviser, and you can hear it in his music. It was good, and not just for technical facility. I couldn't wait to get home and practice - I'd hit the keys right after school. We didn't have a piano, but she had three clients who let me play theirs. Over his father's objections, this strong woman encouraged him to take lessons in his native Philadelphia. 'I was lucky to have a mom who cared and wanted to help me,' he says during the phone interview last week. Tyner, 67, is an archetypal example of America's best, born under a good star, in his right time and place. But jazz is juicy African-American fruit, and these days we have to reclaim whatever's left that makes our country great. music biz does its best to suppress sounds that don't make mass-market millions. Continental labels are taking risks while the U.S. Why should you care if Tyner's coming to town? And a few years back Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddins quit reviewing, calling jazz an art form of the past. You've heard the rumors that jazz is dead. They packed Overture Hall for Sonny Rollins last year, and Tyner at WUT should draw a similar crowd. Madison has its fair share of hardcore jazzheads. When Tyner's famous fingers fly over the ivories making modal soul you won't miss a beat. This is intimate, stripped-down, pure jazz, Jack. It has superplayers Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums. The latest incarnation of the McCoy Tyner trio cooks. Tyner's whopping career spans some 50 years he has 80 albums and four Grammys under his belt. It's the first act in the classy new Isthmus Jazz Series, which later this season brings in Eddie Palmieri and Dianne Reeves. It's been a while, but Tyner returns to the WUT on Friday, Oct. Over the years he's played several Madison gigs, including two at the Wisconsin Union Theater, in 1973 and '78. EST at the Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Detroit.Jazz piano giant McCoy Tyner's no stranger in this town.

4 Robert Morris in the CHA quarterfinals, Friday, March 10 at 3:35 p.m. 5 seed in the tournament and will face No. Heading into the CHA Tournament beginning Friday, Ehn has scored a goal in four of his last five games and has at least one point in eight of his last 11 games.ДЄir Force finished the regular season at 11-19-1 overall and 8-12 in the CHA. On the weekend, Ehn won 71 percent of his faceoffs. He then tallied the first assist on Matt Charbonneau's goal late in the second period that ended up being the game winner. His first goal came just 48 seconds after the Warriors cut the Falcon lead to 2-1 late in the first period. On Saturday, Ehn had two points to complete a three-point series. In Friday's win, Ehn scored the game's first goal one minute into the second period to give the Falcons a lead they would never relinquish. He scored a goal in each game as Air Force defeated Wayne State, 3-1 and 5-3. Air Force sophomore forward Eric Ehn earned College Hockey America Offensive Player of the Week honors for his performance against Wayne State, March 3-4.Д®hn led the Falcons to their first conference road sweep since Nov.

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