After Christmas of that year, Tyner brought an all-star trio and special guest JoeLovano to the New Year's Eve broadcast of NPR's Toast of the Nation at Yoshi's in Oakland, Calif.
" The steeply raked design of the Miner Auditorium, he said, owes to practicality as well as to saxophonist Joe Lovano's description of European amphitheaters "where the musicians look into the audience's eyes.