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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
drumsDanny Trifan
bassMike Mandel
keyboards
Mike Lawrence
trumpet
Chuck Rainey
bass, electric
Miroslav Vitous
bassAlbert Stinson
bass, acousticHarry Wilkinson
drumsMervin Bronson
bass
Chris Brubeck
tromboneAdditional Personnel / Information
Jimmy Garrison, Ron Carter: bass; Danny Brubeck, Elvin Jones: drums.
Read the Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years Liner Notes
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.
