Tricycles (Remastered Deluxe Edition) Larry Coryell with Paul Wertico & Marc Egan

• 1 Immer Geradeaus (Remastered) 06:39
• 2 Quasimodo (Remastered) 05:31
• 3 Good Citizen Swallow (Remastered) 06:09
• 4 Tricycles (Remastered) 06:23
• 5 Stable Fantasy (Remastered) 04:31
• 6 Spaces Revisited (Remastered) 08:54
• 7 Round Midnight (Remastered) 08:38
• 8 Three Way Split (Remastered) 03:43
• 9 Well You Needn't (Remastered) 05:27
• 10 Dragon Gate (Remastered) 08:44
• 11 Rhapsody and Blues (Remastered) 07:53
• 12 She's Leaving Home (Remastered) 03:02
• Total Runtime 01:15:34

Info for Tricycles (Remastered Deluxe Edition)

A milestone in the discography of Larry Coryell. Remixed and remastered by sound engineer Winnie Leyh exclusively for the Deluxe Edition from the original tapes. Leyh has played a major role in the excellent sound of numerous IN+OUT releases.

To be able to deliver a first-rate recording while suffering from a stubborn cold, you have to be an exceptional musician. Troubled by influenza, Larry Coryell, Mark Egan and Paul Wertico completed their autumn tour through stormy Europe in 2002 and eventually came together for a studio session near Frankfurt. “We felt bloody awful, were homesick and none of us had any appetite. I even was too weak to move from my chair”, Coryell recalls. “But somehow we managed to play.”“Somehow” is a considerable understatement. Since the result of this memorable session, now released by In+Out Records, ranks among the most outstanding of the recordings by the dynamic guitarist. After all, Coryell has released some 60 albums to this point and has excelled in a wide variety of genres with his versatile and flexible way of playing. The “flamenco jazz” on his legendary recordings with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin aroused worldwide euphoria. And, before this, he had sparked a fusion craze in New York with his band, Eleventh House. And since the 1980s, the classically trained guitarist has intrepidly undertaken interpretations of works by Stravinsky, Bizet and Gershwin.

On “Tricycles”, we once again hear the one-time associate of Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie and many other superstars in an intimate jazz setting. For the In+Out recording he teamed up with two very special companions. The merits of bass player Mark Egan, a pupil of the late Jaco Pastorius, cannot be overstated. He founded the band Elements, which set new standards in the experimental field. On many solo albums on his own label, Wavetone, Egan developed his visionary “bass universe”, partly with the aid of self-made, eight- and ten-stringed instruments. Paul Wertico, praised as an “impressionist painter” among jazz drummers, not only participated in many Pat Metheny Group records, but is also a much sought-after session musician and producer who has worked with avant-garde trios and popular artists like Terry Callier and Special EFX. The abilities of this exceptional troika are impressively captured on this album. Wertico’s widespread knowledge of styles brilliantly harmonizes with Coryell‘s open-minded approach, and Egan has at his disposal a bass vocabulary which comes surprisingly close to the sound of the guitar. Monk classics like “Round Midnight” and “Well You Needn’t”, even the Beatles song, “She’s Leaving Home”, on which Coryell delivers a fine acoustic solo, fit beautifully into the range of original compositions. Among them are tunes which were spontaneously created in the studio, like the title track, reminiscent of Miles, or the “Stable Fantasy”, a tribute to Benny Golson and Cedar Walton, with whom Coryell worked only recently. On “Spaces Revisited”, Wertico tips his hat to doyen Billy Cobham, while on “Good Citizen Swallow”, the three once again focus on one of Coryell’s own classics.

It seems as if “Tricycles” served the trio as an effective remedy to break free from their influenza. Says Coryell: “We hope that – with our ‘musical painting’ - we have created a soundscape which represents a concrete form of collective wisdom.”

Larry Coryell, guitar
Mark Egan, bass
Paul Wertico, drums

Larry Coryell
(April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist known as the "Godfather of Fusion".

Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands the Jailers, the Rumblers, the Royals, and the Flames. He also played with the Checkers from nearby Yakima, Washington. He then moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. He played in a number of popular Northwest bands, including the Dynamics, while living in Seattle.

In September 1965, Coryell moved to New York City, where he attended the Mannes School of Music, and then became part of Chico Hamilton's quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton. Also during the mid-1960s he played with the Free Spirits, his first recorded band. His music during the late-1960s and early-1970s combined the influences of rock, jazz, and eastern music. He married Jewish writer-actress Julie Nathanson before the release of his first solo album, Lady Coryell, which like Coryell, At the Village Gate, and, The Lion and the Ram featured her photos on the cover (there is a 'ghost' nude of her descending a staircase on the Aspects album cover). Julie's poetry was featured on the back cover of Ram. She was an important part of his career, as inspiration, management, and appearance at recording sessions. She wrote a book based on interviews with jazz-rock musicians, including John Abercrombie, and Jaco Pastorius.

In the early 1970s, he led a group called Foreplay with Mike Mandel, a childhood friend, although the albums of this period—Barefoot Boy, Offering, and The Real Great Escape—were credited only to "Larry Coryell." He formed the group The Eleventh House in 1973. The album sold well in college towns and the ensemble toured widely. Several of the group's albums featured drummer Alphonse Mouzon.

Following the breakup of this band, Coryell played mainly acoustic guitar but returned to electric guitar later in the 1970s. He released an album credited with Mouzon and an album with the Brubeck Brothers that was recorded direct-to-disc, a recording method revived for a time. He made several acoustic duet albums, two with Belgian guitarist (and former Focus member) Philip Catherine. Their album Twin House (1977), which contained the song "Miss Julie", drew favorable reviews.

In 1979, Coryell formed The Guitar Trio with fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía. The group toured Europe and released a video recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London entitled Meeting of Spirits. In early 1980, Coryell's drug addiction led to him being replaced by Al Di Meola. Julie Coryell sang on one track of Comin' Home (1984). The couple divorced in 1986. She died in 2009. Coryell recorded an album with (and was briefly romantically involved with) Emily Remler before her death from a heroin overdose while on tour in Australia. (Source: timenote.info)

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