Planet End is Larry Coryell´s tenth album as a leader. The album was released 1975 on the Vanguard label. The album was produced by Daniel Weiss and engineered by David Baker. It was the final recording for the Vanguard label and reached number 39 on the 1976 Jazz Albums chart.The album consisted of various tracks recorded at the Spaces and Introducing the Eleventh House sessions.
During 1968-75, guitarist Larry Coryell recorded a wide variety of interesting material for Vanguard. This album, a CD reissue of the original Lp, was Coryell's final one for the label. The five selections, although originals, have the feel of a jam session. Coryell's Eleventh House (which includes trumpeter Mike Lawrence, keyboardist Mike Mandel, bassist Danny Trifan and drummer Alphonse Mouzon) is featured on two tracks (their final recordings), Coryell plays all of the instruments on the brief "The Eyes Of Love" and on two lengthy jams he is matched with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin, bassist Miroslav Vitous, drummer Billy Cobham and (on Larry Young's "Tyrone") keyboardist Chick Corea.
The lively music is very much of the period and this CD is a bit brief
(at 34 minutes) but the high-quality of the solos makes this one worth
picking up by listeners interested in Larry Coryell's early period.
Born in Galveston, Texas in 1943, Larry Coryell's early musical
experiences were playing rock music with a variety of North Western
American groups in the Seattle area in his teens after a family move
there. Introduced by his mother to piano from an early age, he switched
to guitar and that rapidly became his instrument. Initially uncertain of
his talent, he nevertheless studied classical guitar following a
relocation to New York City in 1965, though his earlier varied
influences of Chuck Berry and John Coltrane were to pull him in
different directions and 1966 saw him playing on drummer Chico
Hamilton's “The Dealer” album as well as starting his own relatively
short-lived psychedelic group The Free Spirits. Later in the sixties he
played with the likes of Arnie Lawrence, Gary Burton and Herbie Mann,
and then in 1973 he formed another band, The Eleventh House.
This album, which dates from 1975, does indeed feature two tracks by
The Eleventh Hour on which he is joined by trumpeter Mike Lawrence,
electric piano and synthesizer player Mike Mandel, bass player Danny
Trifan, and drummer Alphonse Mouzon. They play ‘Cover Girl’, written by
Mouzon, and Randy Brecker's ‘Rocks’. Of the others, his own The Eyes Of
Love’ finds him playing all the instruments, while Tyrone and the title
track ‘Planet End’ both feature a stellar line-up. On these two he is
joined by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin on guitar, Chick Corea on electric
piano, Miroslav Vitous on bass and Billy Cobham on drums. It was this
latter line-up with whom in 1970 he had recorded one of his best-known
albums, Spaces (available here as VMD 79345), before which he had toured
with well-known names such as Jack Bruce and ex-Hendrix drummer Mitch
Mitchell. These experiences of driving and powerful rock very much fed
into his work and, linked with his jazz appreciation, helped form the
bop-rooted jazz rock genre that has proved to be the bedrock of his
career.
From the opening track, it is drum and bass driven power all the
way, with Larry's guitar punctuating. It is in turns angry, insistent,
expressive, ugly and lyrical, and it is this variety that marks the
album out. Having lived through the recent years that featured the
playing of Hendrix, Clapton and Carlos Santana (three names that he tips
his hat to on his website), Larry was in a time when audiences were
primed for adventurous guitar playing, and this fuelled his
experimentations. The longest track here, ‘Tyrone’, shows particularly
how he has absorbed such rock influences and then extended them very
much in his own way with tempo and tonal shifts, while by contrast
‘Rocks’ is more rooted in jazz bop history. Contrast and surprise
continues with the acoustic guitar work on ‘The Eyes Of Love’, though
there are rock figures here too. The nearly nine-minute closer, ‘Planet
End’, gradually builds in intensity through a series of solos and mood
shifts all very much led by Larry's fine and inventive playing.
Very fine mish mash of styles and periods on this album. Larry was
coming to the end of his time at Vanguard and may have cleared the
cupboard for this one, but the sessions were amongst his finest. Two
long jams from the 'Spaces' album and two tight fusion pieces from the
first Eleventh House album, plus a solo guitar composition with a few
choice overdubs. My favorite is 'Tyrone', a sprawling Larry Young
standard done in near free jazz style, but all the songs are pretty
tasty.
This is
hardcore jazz fusion at its finest. From the thundering opening riff of
"Cover Girl" to the free-form departure of 'Tyrone" this CD is a guitar
player's dream and a certified classic!
Tracks Listing
1. Cover Girl (5:38)
2. Tyrone (11:38)
3. Rocks (4:48)
4. The Eyes Of Love (3:21)
5. Planet End (8:45)
Total Time : 34:10
Previously unreleased material from sessions for the albums " Spaces " (1970) and " Introducing Larry Coryell and The Eleventh House" (1974)
Line-up / Musicians
Tracks 2, 3, 5
- Larry Coryell / guitar
- Mahavishnu John McLaughlin / guitar
- Miroslav Vitous / double bass
- Chick Corea / piano
Tracks 1, 2, 4
Larry Coryell with The Eleventh House
- Larry Coryell / guitar
- Mike Lawrence / trumpet
- Mike Mandel / piano, synthesizer
- Danny Trifan / bass
- Alphonse Mouzon / drums
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