Despite all-star accompanists and sterling production, organist Jimmy McGriff's Milestone output (since 1983) has more of a lounge-combo sound than the wicked blues he cut for Sue in 1962-65 or the heady grooves of his Groove Merchant and LRC records of the 1970s. Still, Straight Up, the organ grinder's eleventh Milestone recording, occasionally moves ...

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Larry Coryell, Tom Coster, Steve Smith: Cause and Effect

Read "Cause and Effect" reviewed by Ed Kopp

by Ed Kopp
October 1, 1998

Pioneering fusion guitarist Larry Coryell has dabbled in many styles: straight-ahead jazz, psychedelic jazz-rock, classical, gentle acoustic music, Indian music, Brazilian jazz and pop-jazz. Coryell's embrace of disparate styles has resulted in several inferior albums, but I'm happy to report that Cause and Effect is not one of them. This is an impressive return to the ...

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Larry Coryell, Steve Smith, Tom Coster: Cause and Effect

Read "Cause and Effect" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 1998

Legendary guitar genius Larry Coryell has reclaimed some of his early roots here with an explosive new cd on Tone Center records. Backed by stalwart session men Steve Smith (drums) and Tom Coster (kbrds) this is the stuff that Coryell admirers have been waiting for, especially after some recent and relatively sedate “smooth jazz" ventures. Coryell ...

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Larry Coryell: Major Jazz Minor Blues

Read "Major Jazz Minor Blues" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
April 1, 1998

From an artist whose career has spanned jazz-rock, electric fusion, and mainstream jazz, this straight-ahead session from 55-year old guitarist Larry Coryell is a welcome chapter. Backed by piano, bass and drums, four of the guitarist's 1980's Muse recordings are revisited to produce this album of re-issued material; the ten tracks come from Toku-Do, Equipoise, Shining ...

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