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Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years

Larry Coryell

Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2007
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Tracks

Disc: 1 - Treats Style; Lady Coryell; The Dream Thing; Two Minute Classical; You Dont Know What Love Is; Stiff Neck; Cleos Mood; Improvisation on Villa-Lobos (Prelude No. 4 in E Minor); The Eyes of Love; Gratitude "A So Low"; Elementary Solo #5; Rue Gregoire Du Tour 1; Sweet Shuffle 14. Ah Wuv Ooh. Disc: 2 - Spaces (Infinite); Low-Lee-Tah; Adam Smasher; Joy Ride; Yin; Entardecendo en Saudade; Scotland Part 1; The Jam With Albert; Rocks; Planet End; Rasputin.

Personnel

Larry Coryell

guitar

Ray Mantilla

percussion

Darius Brubeck

piano

Jim Pepper

saxophone, tenor

Bernard Purdie

drums

Chick Corea

piano

Alphonse Mouzon

drums

John McLaughlin

guitar

Randy Brecker

trumpet

Billy Cobham

drums

Bob Moses

drums

Danny Trifan

bass

Mike Mandel

keyboards

Mike Lawrence

trumpet

Chuck Rainey

bass, electric

Miroslav Vitous

bass

Albert Stinson

bass, acoustic

Harry Wilkinson

drums

Mervin Bronson

bass

Chris Brubeck

trombone

Additional Personnel / Information

Jimmy Garrison, Ron Carter: bass; Danny Brubeck, Elvin Jones: drums.

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Album Description

A representative sampling of the guitarists early recordings for Vanguard (and a few later ones as well), it chronicles what one of the musicians who presided over the birth of jazz-rock fusion was up to before that blessed event. Theres a healthy dose of jazz scattered among these fifteen tracks; the presence of major players such as Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison, not to mention Coryells own virtuosity, guarantees that. But this is by no means a straight jazz compilation. While youll hear traces of Jim (as in Hall), theres also more than a little Jimi (as in Hendrix); along with the Wes (Montgomery), theres plenty of the West (coast). Neither just a jazzbo or a rocker, Larry Coryell just plays his guitar; he plays it loud or soft, fast or slow, alone or with others. Albums represented here include: Lady Coryell, Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House At Montreux and Planet End.

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