Larry Coryell Bolero

Much of Larry Coryell's work is as difficult to find as it is to categorize – the man seemed to have spent the late '70s and early '80s making albums for anyone who could come up with a microphone and a tape recorder. That said, it's surprising how high the quality level is on most of these releases. Bolero/Scheherazade is one of the most difficult, as it seems to have been released only in Germany and Japan. The album's obscurity may have something to do with the fact that it is confusingly named; Larry Coryell released an album two years before called Bolero, which has nothing to do with this CD. The "Bolero" on that album was a short, improvised piece composed by Coryell, while the one featured here is a reworking of the classic by Maurice Ravel.

As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock – perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some – Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to a nearly alien sensibility to jazz electric guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, cutting tone, and phrasing and note-bending that owed as much to blues, rock, and even country as it did to earlier, smoother bop influences.

Various Artists - Tribute To Miles Davis (2011) [DVD] {IMV Blueline}
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Jazz / Fusion / Jazz Rock

This is the ultimate Tribute concert featuring Larry Coryell, Stanley Clarke, Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, Ricky Lee Jones and others. Recorded live 1992 at Expo for spanish television. Tony Hollingsworth is no man for unfinished business. The experienced promoter organised the Mandela concerts (1988 and 1990, London), The Wall (1990, Berlin), and this unique concert series called Guitar Legends, held in 1991 prior to the Expo 92 in Seville, Spain. Live recordings from the 1991 expo have now been compiled into a fitting tribute to the late Jazz Star Miles Davis.

When Biréli Lagrène's Routes to Django: Live was issued in 1980, the 13-year-old jazz guitarist was immediately praised by critics as a protégé of Django Reinhardt. He had already won a prize in a festival at Strasbourg in 1978, and his appearance at a Gypsy festival was broadcast on television.