Larry Coryell “Spaces”

Larry Coryell

“Spaces”
( LP Vanguard Records, 1974 )
Catalog # VSD 79345

Tracklisting:
A1 – Spaces (Infinite) (9:16)
A2 – Rene’s Theme (4:06)
A3 – Gloria’s Step (4:29)
B1 – Wrong Is Right (9:00)
B2 – Chris (9:31)
B3 – New Year’s Day In Los Angeles – 1968 (0:20)

Personnel & Credits:
Bass – Miroslav Vitous
Drums – Billy Cobham
Electric Piano – Chick Corea
Engineer – David Baker
Engineer [Assistant] – Paul Berkowitz
Guitar – John McLaughlin , Larry Coryell
Producer – Daniel Weiss
Notes: Larry Coryell solos first on Spaces and Wrong Is Right.
John McLauglin solos first on Rene’s Theme.

Notes:
Manufactured and distributed by RCA Limited.
Part of the “Underground”-Series of Vanguard Apostolic

Review:
In more than a few jazz encyclopedia’s “Spaces” is listed as on of the greatest fusion albums ever made, which is simply wrong. Some reviewers simply haven’t listened to the album in question. What you’ll hear on this album is a straight ahead set of sessions of jazz improvisations where the two creaters of jazz-rock style, Coryell and John McLaughlin, leave volume and feedback behind. A beautifully realized album all around, from Coltranesque postbop on “Renee’s Theme” to Coryell’s impressionistic “Wrong is Right”; Coryell is the hard charger here, fleet, angular, filling in spaces with flurries of intricate note clusters, while McLaughlin is into spaces, silences, short fines, wonderful bits of filigree. Bassist Miroslov Vitous is terriic, and drummer Cobham works miracles throughout this wonderful wash of music.

By Celo