Larry Coryell: Trycicles

A milestone in the discography of Larry Coryell. Recorded by sound engineer Winnie Leyh exclusively for the Deluxe Edition from the original tapes remixed and remastered exclusively for the Deluxe Edition. Leyh has played a large part in the excellent sound of numerous IN+OUT releases. When a jazz trio in the worst possible physical condition manages to produce an an outstanding studio session in the worst possible physical condition, then they must be Exceptional musicians. Plagued by the flu, Larry Coryell, Mark Egan and Paul Wertico completed their 2002 fall tour through a stormy Europe and finally found themselves in a studio near Frankfurt frankfurt: "We were feeling sick as dogs, homesick, none of us had any appetite appetite, I myself was too weak to move from my chair," recalls to move from my chair," recalls Coryell. "But somehow we managed to play anyway." "Somehow" is a sheer understatement on the part of the busy guitarist. Because the result of that Session is one of the most outstanding of his records. In three decades to date Decades to date, Coryell has made 60 of them, and with his extremely extremely accomplished and flexible playing style in a wide variety of genres genres. Legendary are the recordings with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin, with whom he coined a flamenco jazz that triggered Euphoria worldwide. Before that, he had already created fusion tinder with the band Eleventh House had already provided fusion tinder in NY. And since the eighties, the classically trained, he has worked on incomparable recordings of Stravinsky - Bizét and Gershwin works. On "Tricycles" we have the pleasure of hearing the stage partner of Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie and many other superstars once again in the in a small jazz context. For the In + Out recording he has brought two special companions on board. The merits of Bassist Mark Egan, a pupil of the late Jaco Pastorius, can be used for the the founding of the band Elements, which set new standards in the experimental The experimental terrain, cannot be rated highly enough. Moreover egan has now released several solo albums on his own label Wavetone His visionary bass universe on his own label Wavetone, partly on the basis of specially developed eight- and ten-string instruments. Paul Wertico, praised as an "impressionist painter" among drummers, has not only not only immortalized himself on many records by the Pat Metheny Group, but is a sought-after session musician and producer who has worked with avant-garde trios, but also for greats in the popular genre such as Terry Callier or Special EFX. The skills of this exceptional troika are like captured in a burning mirror. Wertico's cross-genre Knowledge of style harmonizes splendidly with Coryell's free Coryell's free thinking, and Egan has an astonishingly guitar-oriented language on the bass guitar-oriented language. Monk classics such as " ́Round Midnight" and "Well You Needn't", even the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home", in which Coryell picks up the acoustic solo, harmonize alongside a range of original Original compositions. Among them are tunes created spontaneously in the studio Tunes, such as the title track reminiscent of Miles, or the "Stable Fantasy", in which Coryell bows to Benny Golson and Cedar Walton, with whom he has recently worked with whom he recently worked. Finally, on "Spaces Revisited" salutes the old master Billy Cobham, while with "Good Citizen Swallow", another of Coryell's own compositions from decades ago in a new trio context. It seems as if the three gentlemen have freed themselves from their their flu-like infection with "Tricycles" - as Coryell himself comes to the conclusion coryell himself comes to the conclusion: "We hope that with these 'musical paintings' have created an aural image that represents a concrete form of collective wisdom."