Electric (Remastered) Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White

• 1 Wolfbane 06:07
• 2 BB Blues 05:03
• 3 So What 06:19
• 4 Sex Machine 07:19
• 5 Black Dog 06:16
• 6 Footprints 07:26
• 7 Born Under a Bad Sign 07:51
• 8 Lowblow 07:13
• 9 Rhapsody and Blues 04:14
• Total Runtime 57:48

Info for Electric (Remastered)

A blistering set of jazz, blues and classic rock anthems, Electric announces the arrival of this incredible supergroup/power trio. Featuring guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist Victor Bailey and drummer Lenny White, the amazing dynamics of this uncompressed recording, entitled simply "Electric", place you front and center for a blistering performance featuring jazz, blues and rock anthems by one of the world's greatest electric power trios. You'll get covers of Led Zeppelin ("Black Dog"), Miles Davis' classic "So What"), and Booker T. Jones' "Born Under A Bad Sign", as well as a James Brown hit ("Sex Machine"), a Wayne Shorter tune ("Footprints"), as well as Coryell, White and Bailey original tracks tp enliven the mix. "We tried to straddle the lines between 'jazz', 'rock', 'funk' and 'fusion' and whatever other names people want to put on music," comments Bailey.

"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 Sly and the Family Stone'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, AMG)

Victor Bailey, electric bass
Larry Coryell, electric guitar
Lenny White, drums

Digitally remastered

Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White
Guitarist Larry Coryell hails from the generation of musicians that in the mid-sixties put up the scaffolding of jazz-rock. In 1965 Coryell founded The Free Spirits. The band could be described as Blood, Sweat & Tears ‘avant la lettre’, a jazzy pop group featuring saxophonist Jim Pepper, with Coryell playing the part of the singer-songwriter. At the beginning of the seventies Coryell founded the historical The Eleventh House, a jazz-rock formation in the same league as monumental bands like John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever. During the mid-seventies Coryell decided to unplug his guitar and he ventured into acoustic projects. His transcriptions of complete works by Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov rank among the most remarkable productions. In the new millennium the guitarist focused on the guitar-bass-drums formula with musicians like Mark Egan (bass) and Paul Wertico (drums). On his new album Electric he plays with Victor Bailey and former Return to Forever drummer Lenny White, the two musicians with whom he also performs at North Sea Jazz 2006. Bailey, who after the death of Jaco Pastorius seemingly effortlessly succeeded to his throne, is one of the best contemporary electric bassists. After leaving Chick Corea, Lenny White made a name for himself with his subtle swinging style in the Griffith Park and Echoes of An Era All Star groups, in which he performed with Chaka Khan and Joe Henderson.

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