Hi all: Coryell was impressiveand innovative on Gary Burton's Duster (RCA) and his own Barefoot Boy (Flying Dutchman) and a couple of other projects from the 1960s. Soon though he changed from someone adding a touch of rock music excitement to jazz to a full-fledged fusionoid. Especially rank were a bunch of discs from the mid to late 1970s with Phillip Catherine on second guitar and Alphone Mouzon on percussion. I saw the band then -- unrelentless, bombastic fusion. Coryell later did some acoustic guitar sessions for Arista etc. which lacked any excitement he could bring from the electric. When I saw him last a few years ago, he was playing in a duo with his son Julian, who was so flashy that he made Dad seem like Joe Pass. Now I hear he's playing with his other children as well, which doesn't sound like a good sign.(!) Ken Waxman --- mwisckol@ocregister.com wrote: >
i was 13 or so when a record store clerk rang me up for mahavishnu's "between nothingness and eternity" -- and passionately recommended larry coryell and the 11th house, enthusiastically praising not only coryell but alphonse mouzon as hipper and funkier than cobham, and electric trumpeter randy brecker as a cat who had his own bag going, distinct from miles. "the eleventh house with larry coryell" helped form my young idea of what good music was, and i still enjoy it from time to time -- a bit of that in a nostalgic way, but coryell did have a distinct thing going on and there are some greasy grooves in there.... i later picked up "introducing the 11th house" which had a soprano saxist (steve wilkinson?) instead of brecker, an earlier album that also had it's charm and which i haul out for a spin ever couple years.... there was also an acoustic coryell LP in the 70s that i liked, can't remember the name, but he hasn't held my interest to strongly in the decades since....
martin
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