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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 (twenty years ago)

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

http://www.smithjp.com/jazz/jazz_images/Larry%20Coryell.jpg

"I should've been Hendrix!"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

oops. here's that image

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

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

oh, fuck. nevermind

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

http://www.glorifythepast.com/coryell_55_300x200.jpg

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

seven 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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

five 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 (thirteen years ago)

This guy looks like a total dick but he can shred

― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 01:22 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

Does anybody klnow if there is much difference in sound between the '95 Vanguard issue of Lady Coryell and the '99 Ace version?

I've also just noticed that there is talk in the thread about the Free Spirits studio lp and nothing about the Live At The Scene set that Sunbeam released. THe band always felt they were far from well represented by the studio set because they were saddled with an unsympathetic producer who insisted on keeping all tracks very short in length so the band didn't get the chance to stretch out.The live set goes some way towards correcting that picture.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:50 (eleven years ago)

Amazing this thread should pop up, as I'm listening to his version of "Gypsy Queen" at this very moment! I actually started on the Gabor Szabo thread, and then started trying to remember what guitarist's record I used to check out of the library over and over as a teenager. It was Barefoot Boy.

No idea on your query tho.

― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:01 (eleven years ago)

Ha, I actually started this thread but have no memory of doing so, forgotten this amusing bit:

"Oh I've got a friend from Glasgow, fellow named Jack Bruce, used to play in a band called Cream".

― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:04 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFUkzGXG7E

what's the scuzziest, most abrasive Coryell on record? Et Cetera's Knisch is a pretty good fusion album, but his performances there are almost too tame in comparison to the live set above (key cut is "The Really Great Escape" at 46:12). the only other thing I've heard from him is Barefoot Boy.

― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:54 (seven years ago)

*Knirsch

― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:54 (seven years ago)

Whoa! Has that been released? Bootlegged?

I dunno about scuzzy and abrasive, but he's really good (and out-ish) on those early Gary Burton albums, and I love him on The Dealer by Chico Hamilton.

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 31 December 2018 00:41 (seven years ago)

Live at the Village Gate has him at his most Hendrixian I think. Spaces is good too for the more rock-oriented stuff

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 31 December 2018 01:48 (seven years ago)

Scuzzy and abrasive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQG-TVb3VEw

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 31 December 2018 01:54 (seven years ago)

thanks, I'll have to check some of those out!

Whoa! Has that been released? Bootlegged?

it only exists as a bootleg. there's an officially released Et Cetera live album, but Coryell isn't part of the lineup

― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Monday, 31 December 2018 02:15 (seven years ago)

xxpost, yeah brace yourself for that JCOA! Otherwise, the impression that I get from early 70s Downbeats and Village Voices---a few that I own, owned, borrowed, found in the University Library subbasement etc---ditto Jazz and Pop Magazine, which lived just long enough to make Pazz & Jop take that name---is "better live." So yeah, Village Gate and that live Free Spirits set that Stevo mentioned are ones you might wanta check first----although, as Bob Moses unnecessarily explains says in his notes, it was recorded through one mic hanging way overhead from the ceiling----lots of good stuff though, like when they're chasing the bass line from "I Can't Turn You Loose" around and around the room like Manson chickies. (They disowned the studio album pretty quickly, saying it was fucked with by the suits from the get-go.)
Also some sections of the Steve Marcus albums he played on (uncredited on my ancient copy of Tomorrow Never Knows. Not scuzzy but gaudy and fun with Eleventh House sometimes, especially on The 11th House, which is studio and therefore uneven LC, but mostly good of its kind (a time capsule for sure).

― dow, Monday, 31 December 2018 02:22 (seven years ago)

Man, this Et Cetera thing is great! Thanks for sharing! Damn I love Larry. He never really got his due.

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 31 December 2018 03:14 (seven years ago)

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