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Larry Coryell
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Crossroads, Collisions and Butterflies

Where he formerly created tsunamis by churning the seas, he now has found the power of the butterfly effect through the most subtle variation in a vibrato technique or muting effect or in an imperceptible turn of a musical phrase.


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Larry Coryell Ultimates

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You Don't Know What Love Is Lady Coryell Show some European attitude... You Don't Know What Love Is - Lady Coryell
Ah Uv Ooh Coryell This may not ... Ah Wuv Ooh - Improvisations - Best of the Vanguard Years
Wrong Is Right Spaces Magic Happens... Wrong Is Right - Spaces
Chris Spaces After a bit of languid, thematic ... Chris - Spaces
Gypsy Queen Barefoot Boy CAUTION: Highly ... Not Available
Scotland I Offering Offering is a ... Scotland I - The Essential Larry Coryell
Suite: Entrance / Repose / Exit Level One After a brief opening that feels like... Not Available
Rue Gregoire du Tour Return At once, both good medicine and airy ... Rue Gregoire du tour - Improvisations - Best of the Vanguard Years
Round Midnight Toku Du Although faithful to Thelonius Monk's... Round Midnight - Tricycles
Almost a Waltz Monk Trane, Miles & Me This feels so personal and ... Almost a Waltz - Monk, Trane, Miles and Me
Moody on My Mind Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players Nothing short of ... Moody On My Mind - Larry Coryell With The Wide Hive Players
Return of Shirtless Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players See Capsule Review
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Capsule Review

Return of Shirtless on Larry Coryell and the Wide Hive Players starts off, unassuming — a fun session funk jam. Rhythm guys set down a groove, follwed by keyboard making a funk exclamation point; and then Larry delivers a theme, giving more body. The horns join the fray with a some dimension, and voila, it has come to life. It is alive and compelling.

And then take a deep breath, or be prepared to have it taken away, because you have only made that slow climb up to the roller coaster summit before it hurls you through unexpected twists and turns and death defying blind falls. As if to say, “Here, play this,” Coryell lays down a new theme which the horns dutifully follow; and while the band “plays this,” Coryell, constructs, deconstructs, reconstructs, resuscitates and resurrects that theme, employing lightning strike solo bursts, blistering fretwork, evocative phrasing, and up till now, chords that were concealed in the lost ark. Between the slashing and bursting, Coryell shows us not only how to play a song, but to play with it, as a cat would with a mouse.

Phoneme is a linguistic term meaning, the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances. Larry seems to have found the music solo counterpart to that, and these bursts are both provocative and energizing. After listening, I feel I have borne witness to a new form.

NOTE: If you are looking for an “ultimate playlist” for Larry Coryell, you couldn't do any better than Larry Coryell and the Wide Hive Players. Echos of Django, intonations of T-Bone — but distinctly Coryell at his best.



Return Of Shirtless - Larry Coryell With The Wide Hive Players

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