Spaces

Larry Coryell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EL6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,404 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Landmark jazz guitar album, February 1, 2004

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Ted Burke "Ted Burke" (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spaces (Audio CD)

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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super, May 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Spaces (Audio CD)

If there's such a thing as "mellow hysteria," Larry Coryell has managed to tap into it on this album. His guitarwork here ripples with phrases that threaten to go off te deep end but somehow stay grounded and engaging. John McLaughlin holds his own here as well and the two of them trading solos on the title cut is wonderful to hear. Add ace support from Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Miroslav Vitous (playing a bowed bass that sounds, well, other-worldly) and you have an album that wins you over without pummeling you to the ground. Real good.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spaces, April 6, 2000

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Alex - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spaces (Audio CD)

I have been listening to this album (when they were vinyl albums) by Larry Coryell for over 20 years. It's is amazing. You're into guitar Coryell and John Mclaughlin (two of the most well trained and technically skilled guitarist playing in that jazz/rock mode)will blow your mind. These recordings are intricate, jazzy, playful...Bill Cobham is jazz-funk creative as it gets and Mirslov on the bass proves why we miss out by his lack of activity