The Best! I did not see them in person but had many of Burton and Coryell"s albums - Nice to find the cut here - I had well over 1500 albums and this cut was by far the most played. This is now a favorite on my computer, to listen to many more times.
Its simple guys Larry was the only god damned jazz guitar player in HISTORY that actually rocked. Sure Johnny Mclaughlin could put some ferocious distorted rock type licks down especially mahavishnu era but Larry actually is a rocker at heart. He was just too big for rock genre and had to make his mark on jazz. Peace to all!!
Coryell's "Live at the Village Gate " was my first introduction to jazz and I still listen to it. His "Offering" album with Mike Mandel & Steve Marcus is incredible.
As much as I love the "Lady Coryell" album with its raucous "Cleo's Mood" and some slightly later things like "Elementary Guitar Solo" I feel his early work with Gary Burton is his best. Perhaps Larry being such an innovative guy becomes especially brilliant when forced to stay within the limits of an almost traditional dinner club style jazz. His guitar is just so beautiful here and on Gary Burton's wonderful album with the silly title, "Lofty Fake Anagram." Greg Gibbs
This is amazing...great composition...childlike yet sophisticated and well ahead of its time.....Coryell is just so great on this...I bet a very young Pat Metheny heard this and the light bulb above his head LIT UP ! I hear many future Metheny-isms here...Priceless...Thanks for posting this.
@chrisrodgepodge Metheny heard this as well as Mclaughlin Scofield Frissel Abercrombie and countless others. They were influenced by Larry and all at one time or another acknowledge this. Larry is so important to modern jazz guitar - listen to him today- a national treasure.
Seeing this is like watching footage from Bird-Gillespie or Miles with Coltrane or Ornette with Don Cherry: the group is just that important. The fusion aspects come largely from Coryell's articulation on guitar. Those string bends come out of a blues rather than a jazz tradition (and they are predominantly separate traditions). Thanks for posting this. Hopefully the entire show will someday be available.......come to thing of it, where did you find this?????
@Beck19781 So was Charlie Christian a fusion player? I just feel like these labels are just placed to compartmentalize rather than add dimension to the music. Same with Frisell, he just sounds good whether he's bending strings or bending the neck of his Tele. Blues and jazz are always closely tied, especially on the guitar. Rubs me the wrong way when jazz players purposefully move away from the blues, like severing blood ties or so...
@pickinstone No, Charlie Christian wasn't a fusion player. Neither is Kenny Burrell or Pat Martino. I don't think the presence of bending in jazz automatically denotes "fusion". It is Coryell's articulation in these passages specifically which I feel denotes a blues (and, even more specifically, rock) influence that wasn't heard before in jazz guitar. And I agree that labels can often be limiting. Frisell can handle a standard with as much ability as he can play an original.
@pickinstone I was simply trying to address what I find to be Coryell's innovations in the context of this group. Coryell, like Metheny, is a post-bop guitarist who is at home in many styles of jazz: straight ahead as well as fusion. But I do think its important to understand what made him original. I like thinking about things like that.
@Beck19781 I just never liked that word 'fusion' as it related to jazz, even though I love listening to 'fusion' music, jazz always seemed to mix genres (get's more frustrating when so called jazz police try to erase all music post-bop bop as entirely separate from the lineage of jazz, what would Miles say to that?) . I only know Coryell through his work with Burton, but I can hear what you're saying. It's interesting to compare Duster to Like Minds for that reason
Brings back great memories of seeing them at Carnegie Recital hall that same year. That show was released as an album. Always loved this song by Steve Swallow. Very innovative group.
fyi if you haven't heard them, Coryell's first 2 Albums after leaving this group, 'Lady Coryell' and 'Coryell' are masterpieces, my favorites of all his recordings.
Larry on Gibson Super 400. Would see him in various places around Seattle in th 60s. Sometimes at after hours places or at the Penthouse (long gone) on the waterfront. Hated to see him head to NYC but he needed and deseved the "big time" venues. Ever inventive and lyrical even with his fusion inclinations. Thanks for sharing.
Gary Burton on vibes,Larry Coryell on guitar,Steve Swallow on bass and Bob Moses on drums.Larry is out of Charlie Christian bag and in those days,also was influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.excellent performance!!!
Duster certainly deserves to be mentioned with other great original fusion stuff, but I wouldn't haggle over what was first, basically because while I was alive, I wasn't yet at an age where I'd embraced jazz. I was a big Cream fan though, as were the guys in Burton's group. If Pat Methany did this song he came by it honestly, as he got his start in Gary Burton's group. He was in it with Mick Goodrick,(sic?), another great jazz guitarist.
Check Gary Burton's "Duster" album which this is contemporary with. I think it's also the original version, and says Mojo on the cover I'm pretty sure.
@lamborn55 Larry Coryell's album live w/ Steve Khan has it as Moto, as does the publisher of the piece. In any case the tune is the tune. Mojo unfortunately a greatly overused trite term ripped from black bluesmen and applied to things like guitars for sale w/ "mojo" . Please.
The name of the song is "General Moto's Well Laid Plan" M-o-t-o. Mr. Moto is a character from 1935 novel by JP Marquand after the creator of Charlie Chan series died. Hope someone can find a video of this tune with Larry and Steve Khan who did an acoustic guitar duo with it- great.
@altstrasse No, it's "Mojo". Different sources seem to be conflicted on this point but I found the lead sheet for the piece. As it's Mr. Swallow's composition, I'd say the title he has on the sheet is definitive.
@altstrasse YouTube isn't letting me put the link to the .pdf of the lead sheet up here so I posted it in your user page comments box. Hope this helps.
Steve Swallow and Bob Moses ! Thank you Sir. Really appreciate the information. What a thrill to see the famous rhythm section live. I have Steve Swallow playing electric bass from later years and he is a monster there too.
Coryell's way of playing the guitar brings tears to my eyes (and not many things do). His album "Live at the Village Gate" is one of my all-time favorites. It is mystic and funny and innocent at the same time. His recordings with The Eleventh House are still good, But they cannot compare with the magic of his earliest recordings.
@Toastwithmarmelade I agree with every word--I still have my vinyl of "Village Gate" and listen to it to this day. It's amazing in a way that I still cannot fully believe.
I saw this same group of musicians at Kirkpatrick chapel on Rutgers campus when I was a freshman in 1967 and loved them....Coryell was quite an introduction to live jazz guitar....Vibrafinger has always been one of my favorites
the first fusion record was john mclauphlins devotion, this is jazz, there is no "fusion" of rock . devotion with buddy miles is the "first" fusion record.
Devotion was released in 1970 while Larry's albums Coryell and LADY CORYELL were both released in 1969 also Coryell and Steve Marcus released the FREE SPIRITS in 1967. The Burton 4tet's releases to my ears did incorporate jazz and rock. Larry adding mostly the rock blues portion.
I agree. This tune was pulled from Gary Burton's seminal LP "Duster" - many jazz critics point to it as the first jazz "fusion" album, not Bitches Brew. Outside of Larry Coryell on guitar, there were no other electric instruments on that album.
cool tune - thanks for posting! i rarely get into Gary Burton stuff or stuff w/ vibes ('cept for Bobby Hutcherson..he's a little more to my taste). brilliant musicianship here.
Yes, Volker already died in 2003... If you like "Spectrum" than listen also to bands from the german mps-label or Toto Blanke´s electric circus etc. There were many fine bands in Germany/Europe during the 70s. If you are from the US, I must tell you, that I adore the "fusion" music over there....(Coryell,Martino,Gambale, Ric Fiebracci ETC. ETC.)
I'm digging' the vibe from the suit and the white curly cord Larry!! GROOVY BABY!! Or is you name Austin? International man of mystery...oh ya posing as a Jazzman, Berlin 67!
This video also impressed (when broadcast by german TV around 1968) the than young guitarist VOLKER KRIEGEL (rip) Volker loved the new Jazz wave in the late sixties. He quickly f ound an own group with another american vibraphonist : Dave Pike- The Dave Set ! We can assume, that the Gary Burton Quintet w. Larry Coryell (plays a rare Gibson here) was the reason for the birth of the Dave Pike Set...
This Gary Burton quartet was one of the greatest groups of the 60's, or any decade for that matter. One of their most popular tunes, General Mojo's Well Laid Plan. This is so beautiful! Wish this group would get together again...
Larry Coryell is either much smaller than I thought, or else he's playing a really BIG guitar. It's comical looking.
kmsmith49 4 weeks ago
The Best! I did not see them in person but had many of Burton and Coryell"s albums - Nice to find the cut here - I had well over 1500 albums and this cut was by far the most played. This is now a favorite on my computer, to listen to many more times.
39mills 2 months ago
このsuper400、しかもCです。
ネックとヘッドの間に何か折れたのを繋いだみたい器具のようなものが見えるんですよ。
他の本によるとこのギターはLarryの浮気で彼女が壊したとか載ってましたがひょっとしてその後遺症でしょうか。すべて推測で失礼します。
531866 3 months ago
Its simple guys Larry was the only god damned jazz guitar player in HISTORY that actually rocked. Sure Johnny Mclaughlin could put some ferocious distorted rock type licks down especially mahavishnu era but Larry actually is a rocker at heart. He was just too big for rock genre and had to make his mark on jazz. Peace to all!!
AmericanDiaz 3 months ago 2
11th house was amazing live....
loved that stuff to death...
also heard larry's son is a great player too...
2Xyousee 5 months ago
One more piece where the comment "Like" just doesn't get it done.
TheGWFrog 8 months ago
Coryell's "Live at the Village Gate " was my first introduction to jazz and I still listen to it. His "Offering" album with Mike Mandel & Steve Marcus is incredible.
nearstar1 9 months ago
@nearstar1 I do too...got 'em cheap ! The VG album was one of my best finds. Larry knew how to put some hurt on a Gibson Super 400 .
techxdabruiser 8 months ago
Wow, I've heard these guys on recordings but live it really comes together is a great way. !
MusicNewman 9 months ago
Lofty Fake Anagram was also a great album by this group. That's Steve Swallow on bass. He also played for a while with Bill Evans.
themikeaustin 9 months ago
Is the guitar too big or larry is just too small? anyway his music skills are huge
keo774 10 months ago
@keo774
yeah, like acoustic guitar, hahaha
heisbusyman 9 months ago
Is that Steve Swallow on upright?
urbansocrates 11 months ago
@urbansocrates Yes!
jibsmokestack1 10 months ago
the guitar isnt big enough
boogster123321 1 year ago
As much as I love the "Lady Coryell" album with its raucous "Cleo's Mood" and some slightly later things like "Elementary Guitar Solo" I feel his early work with Gary Burton is his best. Perhaps Larry being such an innovative guy becomes especially brilliant when forced to stay within the limits of an almost traditional dinner club style jazz. His guitar is just so beautiful here and on Gary Burton's wonderful album with the silly title, "Lofty Fake Anagram." Greg Gibbs
6664818GGG 1 year ago
Unbelievable!
elgrovez13 1 year ago
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isivip1 1 year ago
Larry choked that chicken but good...haha. This sounds almost like a country tune.
Chromatype 1 year ago
Look at that guitar...that thing is HUGE man. You know it Tiny E.
IRastaman420 1 year ago
This is amazing...great composition...childlike yet sophisticated and well ahead of its time.....Coryell is just so great on this...I bet a very young Pat Metheny heard this and the light bulb above his head LIT UP ! I hear many future Metheny-isms here...Priceless...Thanks for posting this.
chrisrodgepodge 1 year ago
@chrisrodgepodge Metheny heard this as well as Mclaughlin Scofield Frissel Abercrombie and countless others. They were influenced by Larry and all at one time or another acknowledge this. Larry is so important to modern jazz guitar - listen to him today- a national treasure.
leoosiku 1 year ago 2
This is my first time to hear/see Gary Burton. What a talent. His playing blents perfect w/Coryell.
CadillacL 1 year ago
Seeing this is like watching footage from Bird-Gillespie or Miles with Coltrane or Ornette with Don Cherry: the group is just that important. The fusion aspects come largely from Coryell's articulation on guitar. Those string bends come out of a blues rather than a jazz tradition (and they are predominantly separate traditions). Thanks for posting this. Hopefully the entire show will someday be available.......come to thing of it, where did you find this?????
Beck19781 1 year ago
@Beck19781 So was Charlie Christian a fusion player? I just feel like these labels are just placed to compartmentalize rather than add dimension to the music. Same with Frisell, he just sounds good whether he's bending strings or bending the neck of his Tele. Blues and jazz are always closely tied, especially on the guitar. Rubs me the wrong way when jazz players purposefully move away from the blues, like severing blood ties or so...
pickinstone 9 months ago
@pickinstone No, Charlie Christian wasn't a fusion player. Neither is Kenny Burrell or Pat Martino. I don't think the presence of bending in jazz automatically denotes "fusion". It is Coryell's articulation in these passages specifically which I feel denotes a blues (and, even more specifically, rock) influence that wasn't heard before in jazz guitar. And I agree that labels can often be limiting. Frisell can handle a standard with as much ability as he can play an original.
Beck19781 9 months ago
@pickinstone I was simply trying to address what I find to be Coryell's innovations in the context of this group. Coryell, like Metheny, is a post-bop guitarist who is at home in many styles of jazz: straight ahead as well as fusion. But I do think its important to understand what made him original. I like thinking about things like that.
Beck19781 9 months ago
@Beck19781 I just never liked that word 'fusion' as it related to jazz, even though I love listening to 'fusion' music, jazz always seemed to mix genres (get's more frustrating when so called jazz police try to erase all music post-bop bop as entirely separate from the lineage of jazz, what would Miles say to that?) . I only know Coryell through his work with Burton, but I can hear what you're saying. It's interesting to compare Duster to Like Minds for that reason
pickinstone 9 months ago
Brings back great memories of seeing them at Carnegie Recital hall that same year. That show was released as an album. Always loved this song by Steve Swallow. Very innovative group.
erikkihss 1 year ago
fyi if you haven't heard them, Coryell's first 2 Albums after leaving this group, 'Lady Coryell' and 'Coryell' are masterpieces, my favorites of all his recordings.
jayscott49 1 year ago
Man!! pure STEREO SOUND in 1967 on TV!!
SynclavierMPDR 1 year ago
Nikola Tesla on bass!
OrganCat 1 year ago 2
@OrganCat - who knew?
jayscott49 1 year ago
Is this the same exact group who performed on "Duster"?
OrganCat 1 year ago
@OrganCat - yep.
jayscott49 1 year ago
Larry on Gibson Super 400. Would see him in various places around Seattle in th 60s. Sometimes at after hours places or at the Penthouse (long gone) on the waterfront. Hated to see him head to NYC but he needed and deseved the "big time" venues. Ever inventive and lyrical even with his fusion inclinations. Thanks for sharing.
playtunes 1 year ago
Gary Burton on vibes,Larry Coryell on guitar,Steve Swallow on bass and Bob Moses on drums.Larry is out of Charlie Christian bag and in those days,also was influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.excellent performance!!!
U1950HISADA 1 year ago
so good!
sortoutable 1 year ago
What about Steve Swallow cute moustache?
mouton53 1 year ago
Man, I love those 60s psychedelic thread. They would be caught dead wearing that now. lol No matter, amazing music.
Xelanderthomas 1 year ago
WOAH 1:23 is TRIPPY
HoboMiracleMan 1 year ago
Duster certainly deserves to be mentioned with other great original fusion stuff, but I wouldn't haggle over what was first, basically because while I was alive, I wasn't yet at an age where I'd embraced jazz. I was a big Cream fan though, as were the guys in Burton's group. If Pat Methany did this song he came by it honestly, as he got his start in Gary Burton's group. He was in it with Mick Goodrick,(sic?), another great jazz guitarist.
lamborn55 1 year ago
I got to give Larry a hug in New York in 1997......same week I was front and centre at Mcoy Tyner show!Great Times!
Gazontheraz 1 year ago
I hate the xylophone!
But this is pretty hip...
fatnaken 1 year ago
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HarmonyOneClass 1 year ago
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HarmonyOneClass 1 year ago
Check Gary Burton's "Duster" album which this is contemporary with. I think it's also the original version, and says Mojo on the cover I'm pretty sure.
lamborn55 1 year ago
@lamborn55 I've read where some jazz critics point to "Duster" as the first true jazz fusion LP, not "Bitches' Brew."
rayjr62 1 year ago
The studio recording of General Mojo's Well-Laid Plan is on the 1968 album "Duster".
ajsmatchless1 1 year ago
It absolutely is mojo.
lamborn55 1 year ago
@lamborn55 Larry Coryell's album live w/ Steve Khan has it as Moto, as does the publisher of the piece. In any case the tune is the tune. Mojo unfortunately a greatly overused trite term ripped from black bluesmen and applied to things like guitars for sale w/ "mojo" . Please.
altstrasse 1 year ago
Great quartet playing embryonic fusion.
Manolian 1 year ago
One of the coolest music videos on Youtube. I never knew this group was filmed. I hope the whole thing eventually finds the light of day. Thanks.
ThePmfan 1 year ago
The name of the song is "General Moto's Well Laid Plan" M-o-t-o. Mr. Moto is a character from 1935 novel by JP Marquand after the creator of Charlie Chan series died. Hope someone can find a video of this tune with Larry and Steve Khan who did an acoustic guitar duo with it- great.
altstrasse 2 years ago
@altstrasse No, it's "Mojo". Different sources seem to be conflicted on this point but I found the lead sheet for the piece. As it's Mr. Swallow's composition, I'd say the title he has on the sheet is definitive.
kwakky 1 year ago
@altstrasse YouTube isn't letting me put the link to the .pdf of the lead sheet up here so I posted it in your user page comments box. Hope this helps.
kwakky 1 year ago
Steve Swallow and Bob Moses ! Thank you Sir. Really appreciate the information. What a thrill to see the famous rhythm section live. I have Steve Swallow playing electric bass from later years and he is a monster there too.
Bluesdirections 2 years ago
Who is the bass player and drummer ?
Bluesdirections 2 years ago
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howertonwhite 2 years ago
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Steve Swallow on bass and Bob Moses on drums.
wmkwhite 2 years ago
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Manolian 1 year ago
Coryell's way of playing the guitar brings tears to my eyes (and not many things do). His album "Live at the Village Gate" is one of my all-time favorites. It is mystic and funny and innocent at the same time. His recordings with The Eleventh House are still good, But they cannot compare with the magic of his earliest recordings.
Toastwithmarmelade 2 years ago 16
I love his solo records- so warm and wild at the same time!
markymcclellan 1 year ago
@Toastwithmarmelade "Live at the Village Gate" is one of my favorites too. Great album.
oRuTRa45 1 year ago
@Toastwithmarmelade I agree with every word--I still have my vinyl of "Village Gate" and listen to it to this day. It's amazing in a way that I still cannot fully believe.
dantean 9 months ago
@Toastwithmarmelade Spot on! But his recent work is still good!
walt7500 6 months ago
I saw this same group of musicians at Kirkpatrick chapel on Rutgers campus when I was a freshman in 1967 and loved them....Coryell was quite an introduction to live jazz guitar....Vibrafinger has always been one of my favorites
steveleit 2 years ago
Those musicians were in the future at that time, what a sound man! incredibke!
SynclavierMPDR 2 years ago
the first fusion record was john mclauphlins devotion, this is jazz, there is no "fusion" of rock . devotion with buddy miles is the "first" fusion record.
sidhrtha 2 years ago
Devotion was released in 1970 while Larry's albums Coryell and LADY CORYELL were both released in 1969 also Coryell and Steve Marcus released the FREE SPIRITS in 1967. The Burton 4tet's releases to my ears did incorporate jazz and rock. Larry adding mostly the rock blues portion.
leoosiku 2 years ago
Free Spirits - Yeah!!
markymcclellan 1 year ago
I agree. This tune was pulled from Gary Burton's seminal LP "Duster" - many jazz critics point to it as the first jazz "fusion" album, not Bitches Brew. Outside of Larry Coryell on guitar, there were no other electric instruments on that album.
rayjr62 2 years ago
give it up for tesla on the bass
kleem1 2 years ago
LOL
contrarew 2 years ago
so right, but get a life
marg0507 2 years ago
cool tune - thanks for posting! i rarely get into Gary Burton stuff or stuff w/ vibes ('cept for Bobby Hutcherson..he's a little more to my taste). brilliant musicianship here.
ADURG1 2 years ago
this is very cool. And i'm sorry, but i find 3:29 hilarious!
mrgone78 2 years ago
Didn't Pat Methany rip that off? I think I saw Pat do that a few times at a gig.
rayjr62 2 years ago
he used to do it all the time in the 70s i think, in fact i seem to recall there is a photo of him doing in the CD booklet for his album Travels
mrgone78 2 years ago
Yes, Volker already died in 2003... If you like "Spectrum" than listen also to bands from the german mps-label or Toto Blanke´s electric circus etc. There were many fine bands in Germany/Europe during the 70s. If you are from the US, I must tell you, that I adore the "fusion" music over there....(Coryell,Martino,Gambale, Ric Fiebracci ETC. ETC.)
Tarabos1 2 years ago
the sophisticated side of the psychedelic 60's.
darazn1 2 years ago 14
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rayjr62 2 years ago
that guy playin bass makes it look like that solo is kickin is ass
jstarang1 2 years ago
Very cool.
blope332 2 years ago
I'm digging' the vibe from the suit and the white curly cord Larry!! GROOVY BABY!! Or is you name Austin? International man of mystery...oh ya posing as a Jazzman, Berlin 67!
univibe23 2 years ago
How amazing to see&hear this! Thanks for the posting!!!
univibe23 2 years ago
Larry looks like a very neat hippie here. Tasty playing. The bass player looks like one of the Smothers Brothers. Cool video.
lagatuda 2 years ago
Yeah, not wearing the trademark Buddy Holly glasses that he tended to wear in the 70's. He is quite a guitarist.
thatmuse76 2 years ago
This video also impressed (when broadcast by german TV around 1968) the than young guitarist VOLKER KRIEGEL (rip) Volker loved the new Jazz wave in the late sixties. He quickly f ound an own group with another american vibraphonist : Dave Pike- The Dave Set ! We can assume, that the Gary Burton Quintet w. Larry Coryell (plays a rare Gibson here) was the reason for the birth of the Dave Pike Set...
Tarabos1 2 years ago
I think that Volker, a really good guitarist in his own right also emulated Larry's appearance!
sprechstimme 2 years ago
What kind of guitar is Larry playing? That thing is gorgeous.. Thanks for the video!
radishjunk 2 years ago
Coryell was great here. Sometimes he just tries too hard. This was just right. Loved how the hair had vibrato too.
peleka 2 years ago
This Gary Burton quartet was one of the greatest groups of the 60's, or any decade for that matter. One of their most popular tunes, General Mojo's Well Laid Plan. This is so beautiful! Wish this group would get together again...
ChrisCovais 2 years ago
thank you for these rarities...!
Donbecker5 2 years ago
Coryell way ahead of his time. All modern guitarists are indebted.
leoosiku 2 years ago
This is really great. "Duster" has been a favorite of mine for many years. Great tune, great group. Thanks...
rsw74 2 years ago