[1] During the summers, he visited Chicago, Illinois, New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, where he met the young tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler at age 14.
[2] He returned to Indianapolis to study with David Baker at Indiana University between 1967 and 1968,[2] recording a second album for ESP, Eastern Man Alone.
[1] He moved back to New York in 1974, leading his own groups with Blythe, trumpeter Earl Cross, drummer Steve Reid and others, recording the album Voyage from Jericho on Tyler's own Akba label.
[3] In 1975, Tyler enrolled at Columbia University and made an extensive tour of Scandinavia, releasing his second Akba album Live in Europe.
[6] In 1982, during a European tour with Sun Ra's Orchestra, he relocated to Stockholm, Sweden,[2] and in 1985 he moved to France, recording with other expatriates like Khan Jamal in Copenhagen and Steve Lacy in Paris.