TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Coryell" - Larry Coryell (1969)

"Coryell" - Larry Coryell (1969)

I enjoyed this spin very much.  Larry Coryell was a guitar jazz mage, of course, but here he is a firestorm of wah-wahs, distortion, and burn riffs.  Oh, the album is still held together with some jazz ideas and threads...but "Coryell" leans closer into the funky blues-psych rock on this square.  Hints of psych dust, anyway.  And I dig all the unexpected twists and turns. 


An album cover that has Coryell looking like Freddy Prinze after taking a few sips from the Kool-Aid punchbowl at a 'y'all come back' communal farm leaves little doubt, Larry Coryell was having a wee bit of a love-jones going on.  But this only makes for a lot of fun while Larry works it all out.  And don't let the album cover fool ya.  Coryell's guitar playing is an amazing trip.  I think side one may be the stronger, but that's splitting hairs.  "Coryell" sounds fresh and fine and adds a little something different on the wax to reach for on one of those woozy nights

"Coryell" - Larry Coryell (back)

Favorites include the longest track, "The Jam With Albert" which gets a wicked Coryell workout.  I really like "Sex" for an opener.  And the song, too.  It's a groovy funky thingamagoogah with tasty fuzz burns.  Gets the old heart going pit-a-pat.  "Morning Sickness" is a runaway powder keg with a nice long fuse.  "Elementary Guitar Solo #5" is the most different song with a nice gentle, almost floaty vibe that morphs into something else.  Coryell is butter.

Last year, I picked up Larry Coryell's RSD reissue of "At The Village Gate" and I really liked it, so I'd been keeping an eye out for this early Coryell offering.  I finally found this original copy buried in a dealer's box for only $5.  No real big thing, but still I get excited when I stumble on a record that's been on my radar.  It's that warm rush that keeps us going.  Anyway, the vinyl is on the Vanguard Apostolic label and has a really groovy record sleeve.  My copy is a Pitman pressing noted by the "ᴘ" stamped in the runout signifying a New Jersey stamp.  And that's how it goes.

Vanguard Apostolic sleeve & Vanguard Apostolic label

Cat #
VSD-6547
SIDE A  DEADWAX
V SD  6547  A  p  XSV222356-2A  3
SIDE B  DEADWAX
V SD6547 B  p  XSV222357-2A  3

"Sex" - Larry Coryell / "Larry Coryell" (1969)

TRACKS:
A1  "Sex" 3:51
A2  "Beautiful Woman" 4:32
A3  "The Jam With Albert" 9:20
B1 "Elementary Guitar Solo #5" 6:49
B2  "No One Really Knows" 5:07
B3  "Morning Sickness" 5:20
B4  "Ah Wuv Ooh" 4:22

PERSONNEL:
Larry Coryell - guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
Mike Mandel - keyboards
Chuck Rainey - guitar, bass
Mervin Bronson - bass
Albert Stinson – bass
GUESTS:
Jim Pepper - flute, saxophone
Ron Carter - bass
Bernard Purdie - drums

Good stuff.

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