Larry Coryell - Cedars of Avalon

Older jazz fans may remember Larry Coryell from the 1970s as a major jazz fusion guitarist, but this 2001 session with Cedar Walton, Buster Williams, and Billy Drummond finds him long since settled into a post-bop mode. One gets the feeling that the musicians were so comfortable playing together that they were actually a working quartet; the feeling of each track is of first-take freshness while being as close to perfection as possible. Coryell's teasing introduction to Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing" shows off his playful side, though the imaginative solos all around demonstrate that there is plenty of new ground to cover within this jazz standard. Read More