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| Earthquake at the Avalon |
| Larry Coryell |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
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| 4.620 Ft
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| 1. | The Opening
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| 2. | Souls Dirge
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| 3. | Slow Blues
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| 4. | Half a Heart
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| 5. | The Dream Thing/Stiff Neck
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| 6. | Morning Sickness
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| 7. | The Real Great Escape
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| 8. | The Dragon Gate
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Jazz
Larry Coryell - Guitar, Vocals
David Hidalgo - Guitar
John Hart - Bass
Julian Coryell - Vocals (Background), Keyboards, Liner Notes, Guitar
Winston Byrd - Trumpet
Niko Bolas - Engineer
In his liner notes, Julian Coryell recalls the offer his father was made to perform for a live DVD (of which this album is the audio complement), presumably by director Daniel E. Meza. "Which music?," the son asked. "All the old stuff," Larry Coryell replied. And so it is. In a one-night-only concert at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, CA, on October 13, 2005, Coryell, accompanied by "the Soul Dirges Band" (drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, bassist John Hart, and Julian Coryell on guitar and keyboards, with guests David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and trumpeter Winston Byrd, each appearing on two tunes), delved into his catalog of tunes dating back to the late '60s and early '70s. The result is a blues- and rock-oriented set. In fact, from the opener, "The Opening," the first of several songs on which Coryell sings as well as playing electric guitar, one almost could be listening to Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys. By the time of the extended finale, "The Dragon Gate," with Byrd coming in, the stylistic range has tilted more toward jazz, but for much of this album an uninformed listener would peg this as a rock album, not a jazz one, and that isn't really a bad thing. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Larry Coryell
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Apr 02, 1943 in Galveston, TX
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Fusion, Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Jazz-Rock
As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock -- perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some -- Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to a nearly alien sensibility to jazz electric guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, cutting tone, phrasing and note-bending that owed as much to blues, rock and even country as it did to earlier, smoother bop influences. Yet as a true eclectic, armed with a brilliant technique, he is comfortable in almost every style, covering almost every base from the most decibel-heavy, distortion-laden electric work to the most delicate, soothing, intricate lines on acoustic guitar. Unfortunately, a lot of his most crucial electric work from the '60s and '70s is missing on CD, tied up by the erratic reissue schemes of Vanguard, RCA and other labels, and by jazz-rock's myopically low level of status in the CD era (although that mindset is slowly changing).
According to Coryell, his interest in jazz took hold at the age of four, and after his family moved from Galveston to the state of Washington three years later, he began to learn the guitar, studying records by Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel and Johnny Smith. As a teenager, he played in a band led by pianist Mike Mandel, and by 1965, he gave up his journalism studies at the University of Washington in order to try his luck in New York as a musician. Before the year was out, he attracted much attention jamming in Greenwich Village and replaced Gabor Szabo in Chico Hamilton's band. In 1966, he made a startling recorded debut on Hamilton's The Dealer album, where his blues and rock ideas came to the fore, and that year, he also played with a proto-jazz-rock band, the Free Spirits. Coryell's name spread even further in 1967-68 when he played with Gary Burton's combo, and he was one of the most prominent solo voices on Herbie Mann's popular Memphis Underground album (recorded in 1968). He, Mandel and Steve Marcus formed a group called Foreplay in 1969 (no relation to today's Fourplay), and by 1973, this became the core of the jazz-rock band Eleventh House, which after a promising start ran aground with a string of albums of variable quality.
In 1975, Coryell pulled the plug, concentrating on acoustic guitar and turning in a prolific series of duo and trio sessions with the likes of Philip Catherine, Emily Remler, John Scofield, Joe Beck, Steve Khan and John McLaughlin. In the mid-'80s, Coryell toured with McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia, and in 1986 participated in a five-way guitar session with his old idol Farlow, Scofield, Larry Carlton and John Abercrombie for the Jazzvisions series. Coryell has also recorded with Stephane Grappelli, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and Kenny Barron, and has taped Brazilian music with Dori Caymmi for CTI, mainstream jazz for Muse, solo guitar for Shanachie and Acoustic Music, and (for Nippon Phonogram in Japan) an album of classical transcriptions of music by Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. In other words, Coryell will probably remain as eclectic as ever throughout his career, which will no doubt make life difficult for musicologists with a yen for pigeonholing. Coryell's career in the 21st century has been just as active. 2004 saw the release of Tricycles, an excellent trio date with drummer Paul Wertico and bassist Mark Egan. Electric from 2005 found Coryell playing jazz standards and rock anthems with Lenny White on drums and Victor Bailey on electric bass. In 2006, he released the performance album Laid Back & Blues: Live at the Sky Church in Seattle.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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