Tricycles

Larry Coryell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Favored Nations
• ASIN: B00029LNQE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,473 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Immer Geradeaus

2. Dragon Gate

3. Good Citizen Swallow

4. Tricycles

5. Stable Fantasy

6. Spaces Revisited

7. Round Midnight

8. Three Way Split

9. Well You Needn't

10. She's Leaving Home

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent jazz trio!, October 3, 2004

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Maxwell Hannibal (Newark, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tricycles (Audio CD)

Some people get turned off by the avant-guarde/fusion jazz that Larry did in the 60s/70s. Well, they won't when they hear this one. The style is a little bit of bop, swing, and fusion. There are no effects or electronics, just the plain old guitar/bass/drums. Tricycles finds Coryell with two well-rounded fretless bassist and drummer. He plays with a clean and smooth tone and he spits out very tasty licks that live up to his fame. All songs are originals except two covers of Thelonious Monk and one of the Beatles. I could honestly have done with less drum solos and more bass solos, but the music is still good nonetheless. The standout track is definetly Dragon Gate, although Immer Geradeaus, Good Citizen Swallow and Spaces Revisited are up there too.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's A Gem!, April 28, 2005

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Loren West (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tricycles (Audio CD)

Larry Coryell is a delightful new discovery for me. I recently saw him play live at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia and he blew me away. He has trad jazz guitar playing down pat but can also expand into a multitude of other genres including classical, fusion, new age, world music and rock. Some of his music is wildly exotic and impossible to categorize. (He played "Bolero" with such an Indian flavor that I could have sworn certain passages were being played on a sitar.) I got to meet him and am pleased to report that, in addition to being a virtuoso he is a warm and genuine human being. Standouts from that show were "Spaces Revisited", "Bolero", "Something" and "She's Leaving Home". Two of these songs, "She's Leaving Home" and "Spaces Revisited" are on Tricycles. There are many musical flavors to be found here, including the classic jazz of Monk's "Round Midnight", Larry's own compositions (difficult to categorize), and The Beatles cover "She's Leaving Home" which is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. (His other Beatles cover, George Harrison's "Something" is on The Power Trio CD and is equally good!) Despite the varied material on Tricycles the CD has a very consistent sound and hangs together as a cohesive whole. It leaves you with a blissful feeling that makes you immediately want to listen to the whole thing again from the beginning. I recommend this CD highly for anyone who loves great music, especially virtuoso guitar playing. It's a gem!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best damn guitar albums of this decade, June 6, 2009

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D. M. Paine "Renaissance Man" (Alexandria, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tricycles (Audio CD)

Good God, I had almost forgotten about Larry Coryell and then I heard some of this on Pandora. He's not only live and kickin' he may be better than ever. Great tunes, not a single bad solo, wonderful ensemble playing. How else is this a great album? The sequencing of the songs, closing with a delicate solo renditioon of "She's Leaving Home", the sound quality and production, the variety of styles. In fact that last may be the most important thing. Larry verges on some of his old fusion style but does not try to resurrect it, like the sad Carlos Santana. He shows the best straightahead jazz playing I've heard him play, but like I said I almost forgot about him. Now is the time to fix that, and look into some of his other recent music. Sorry Larry, I'm not interested in your transcriptions of Stravinsky, I want jazz, because this is great stuff!