Artist: Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White
Title Of Album: Electric
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Chesky Records
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 57:30
Total Size: 384 MB (+3%)
Artist: Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White
Title Of Album: Electric
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Chesky Records
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 57:30
Total Size: 384 MB (+3%)
Tracklist
01 — Wolfbane
02 — BB Blues
03 — So What
04 — Sex Machine
05 — Black Dog
06 — Footprints
07 — Born Under A Bad Sign
08 — Lowblow
09 — Rhapsody And Blues
personnel :
Lenny White — drums
Victor Bailey — electric bass, bass guitar
Larry Coryell — electric guitar
This trio set featuring guitarist Larry Coryell, drummer Lenny
White, and bassist Victor Bailey, is issued by Chesky, purveyor of
uncompressed audiophile recordings. And while the sound is
wondrous, it’s the performances here that take front and center.
The mix of jazz, funk, and rock tunes on Electric is infectious,
especially when played with such incendiary inspiration. Members of
this trio wrote four of the nine tunes here. White’s furied funk
freak-out «Wolfsbane» opens the proceeding on a hot note, and
Coryell’s «BB Blues» takes the jazz-inflected blues to a new
intensity. But it is the covers here that really resonate, from a
skeletal and edgy reading of Miles Davis’ «So What,» to Wayne
Shorter’s signature tune «Footprints,» the jazz chops and expansive
improvisation are present everywhere. On James Brown’s «Sex
Machine» and the Page & Plant nugget «Black Dog,» the pedal to
the metal aesthetic really works. Elsewhere, «Born Under a Bad
Sign» is dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century
without losing its blues fire. This is not a recording for those
looking for Coryell’s jazz technique and subtle artistry in
interpreting music from the days of yore. Listeners looking for a
balls-out charge of electric jazz-rock will be more than delighted
by this outing. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide