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Larry Coryell Quartet

Air Dancing

CD jp 1025
LARRY CORYELL g
STANLEY COWELL p
BUSTER WILLIAMS b
BILLY HART dr

Recorded 4th of June 1988 live at Magnétic Terrace, Paris
Engineering and mastering: Gilbert Préneron
Studio d'Enregistrement itinérant,
Auvers St-Georges/France
Produced by Larry Coryell & Jan Jankeje
Photographs by Jürgen Schwab

Complacency has never been part of guitarist Larry Coryell's musical persona.

From his first major gig with the pivotal Gary Burton Quartet in 1967 to the recording you hold in your hands. Larry has constantly explored the harmonic possibilities of the music around him. He arrived in New York in 1965, steeped in the bluesy bop of Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel and Kenny Burrell.Just a year later he was blazing the trail for jazz-rock and the high-speed fusion movement that followed. Through most of the 1970s, Larry helped establish the blistering tempos that defined the electronic era. His peers were John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola, and in that company technique sometimes became both a means and an end.Then, in an apparent about-face, Larry closed the decade by returning to the acoustic guitar. He toured and recorded in the company of such like-minded contemporaries as Philip Catherine, Steve Kahn , John Scofield and Joe Beck.Along the way, he formed a lasting relationship with a demanding classical repertoire, and his improvisations made room for exciting flamenco sketches finest pianists in jazz today.
Like Air Dancing, Buster Williams' Dual Force, which closes the set, is a tune the group had wanted to record for some time. "The band was familiar with the material, and we really wanted to burn", Larry said.And burn they did. For my money, small group jazz doesn't get much better than this.
(Jeff Davis, Columnist & Critic)


1 Prayer for Peace (Stanley Cowell) 11'10"
2 Air Dancing (Buster Williams) 11'43"
3 Impressions (John Coltrane) 4'46"
4 Sienna "Welcome, My Darling" (Stanley Cowell) 5'48"
5 Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin 11'00"
6 Zimbabwe (Larry Coryell) 7'00"
7 Dual Force (Buster Williams) 12'17"