Larry Coryell

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Apropos of nothing, but my friend just texted me to say Larry Coryell was in his (book)shop and he was chatting to him and he was a "nice guy". He asked me who he had played with and I didn't know.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

"I should've been Hendrix!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Larry Coryell has played or recorded at one time or another with a bunch of jazz greats. I only have a couple of his records, but his early fusion album "Spaces" is quite a good listen. I'd like to hear some of Gary Burton's records from the late 60s where Coryell was in his band like "Duster" as they are supposed to be really good, but most are out of print and cost a bit more than I want to pay.

http://www.kiosek.com/coryell/cormore.html

― earlnash, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh I've got a Gary Burton album he's on - "Genuine Tong Funeral". Larry Coryell must be gigging in London just now.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

He's great on Steve Marcus's Tomorrow Never Knows album- everybody is great on that- an alternate path for fusion music that was never really followed up on.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

A couple of his early albums really belong in the rock section, and are great. Check the self-titled "Coryell" (download the track "Sex") and his overtly rock album "The Real Great Escape" which is much better than most jazz fans would have you believe. His "Lady Coryell" record is more eclectic, but the title track is a must-hear. The Burton collabs are all good...some really nice feedback/spazzout playing on the Live At Carnegie Hall one (download "One-Two, 1,2,3,4").

As for who he played with, I'd guess a *lot* of people. His recorded debut was, I'm pretty sure, with Chico Hamilton on "The Dealer."

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

search: coryell, barefoot boy, offering, spaces, fairyland, & Introducing Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House.

The Dealer is great!

he is great live too. even sober.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

he started out in a pretty cool psych band w/jazz influences called The Free Spirits.

i http://photos1.blogger.com/img/29/1375/1024/Coryell.jpg

whole buncha info down in the middle of this page:
http://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_mysticalbeast_archive.html

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

oops. here's that image

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh, fuck. nevermind

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

he played with miles davis during miles' "lost years," though none of that has been released as far as i know. i'm sure someday it will be put out in some ridiculously expensive box set...

― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

and yeah--chico hamilton's "the dealer" is awesome. did Coryell record anything else with him?

― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

i need to put on that Genuine Tong Funeral. that's a pretty, pretty record

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

I really did read some interview with him where he talked about how mad he was when he first heard Hendrix, and how it should it should have been him.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

while it births Lenny Kravitz, i really love that track "Sex" way too much.

― imbidimts, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

my dad used to drag unappreciative skot and me to coryell gigs in th early 80s,we didnt know wht a dude on coke played like,he wailed a hagstrom til our ears rang and we opened up a lil to th sounds,i still have pix i took ads a teen of him and michael urbaniak at th bottom line and urbaniak has one of those fake tuxuedo shirts on...niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, I've heard the full story on this one, apparently Larry Coryell overheard my friend talking and said, "Are you Scottish?". And when my friend said, "Yes, from Glasgow", Larry said (in a booming voice), "Oh I've got a friend from Glasgow, fellow named Jack Bruce, used to play in a band called Cream".

― Dadaismus PBUH (Dada), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

I'm slow to catch this, but The Free Spirits album finally got reissued. It's neither great nor worthless.

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=1666

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

The contrast between Coryell and Sonny Sharrock on Memphis Underground is pretty interesting.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

i am going to see him with LENNY! FUCKING! WHITE! in pdx monday

― millenarian (millenarian), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

I've been working my way through Ed Sanders' history of the Fugs and the Peace Eye bookstore--did you know that Larry Coryell auditioned for the Fugs just before they trekked out to San Francisco in 1965 on a Vietnam Protest tour?

― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 00:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

This guy looks like a total dick but he can shred

― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 01:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

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