Boléro (Larry Coryell album)

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Boléro
Larry Coryell Bolero 1981.jpg
Studio album by Larry Coryell
Released 1981
Recorded April 18, 1981 – November 1983
Studio Tonstudio, Stuttgart, Germany; Scovil Productions, Norwalk, Connecticut
Genre Jazz, jazz fusion
Length58:51
Label String
Producer Gabriel Kleinschmidt, Brian Keane
Larry Coryell chronology
Comin' Home
(1979)
Boléro
(1981)
L'Oiseau de Feu, Petrouchka
(1983)
Alternative cover

Bolero Larry Coryell 1993.jpg

1993 CD Release
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Boléro is an album by jazz guitarist Larry Coryell that was released by String Records in 1981. The album was released on CD in 1993 by Evidence and includes the tracks from the LP At the Airport (1983) recorded with guitarist Brian Keane.

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Evidence Music is an American jazz and blues record label founded in 1992 by Howard Rosen and Jerry Gordon. The label's name comes from a song by Thelonious Monk.

Brian Keane Composer, musician

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Reception

AllMusic awarded the album with 4 out of 5 stars. [1] The Penguin Guide review gave 2.5 stars out of 4 and said, "Coryell had already tackled Ravel (and Robert de Visee) on The Restful Mind and it was inevitable that he would add "Boléro" to "Pavane for a Dead Princess". Ravel was a perfectly logical focus for Coryell and he also tackles the prelude from "Le Tombeau De Couperin", lending it an elaborate contrapuntal feel that almost buries the intriguing modal progression that links it to the gypsy and flamenco traditions that intrigue both men." [2]

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Coryell performed the "Improvisation on Boléro" at the Guitar Legends Festival in Seville, October 1991.

Guitar Legends was a concert held over five nights, from October 15 to October 19, 1991, in Seville, Spain, with the aim of positioning the city as an entertainment destination to draw support for Expo '92 beginning the following April.

Track listing

  1. "Improvisation on Boléro" (Maurice Ravel) – 7:27
  2. "Nothing is Forever" (Coryell) – 3:20
  3. "Something for Wolfgang Amadeus" (Coryell) – 3:53
  4. "Prelude from Tombeau de Couperin" (Ravel) – 1:42
  5. "Elegancia Del Sol" (Coryell) – 3:37
  6. "Fancy Frogs" (Coryell) – 3:55
  7. "6th Watch Hill Road" (Coryell) – 4:09
  8. "Blues in Madrid" (Coryell) – 3:03
  9. "Motel Time" (Coryell) – 1:51
  10. "At The Airport" (Keane, S. Schneider) – 4:30
  11. "Brazilia" (Keane) – 7:18
  12. "A Piece for Larry" (Keane) – 2:42
  13. "La Pluie" (Coryell) – 3:35
  14. "Waltz No.6" (Coryell) – 4:26
  15. "Logical Solution" (Keane) – 3:52
  16. "Warm Weather" (Keane) – 2:40
  17. "Patty's Song" (Keane) – 2:52
  18. "Lines" (Coryell) – 6:07

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Bolero". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette (1 ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0-14-015364-4.