Spaces (Larry Coryell album)

Spaces
Spaces
Studio album by Larry Coryell
Released	1970
Recorded	March 1969
Studio	Vanguard's 23rd Street Studios, New York City (NY)
Genre	Jazz, Jazz fusion
Length	37:02
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Daniel Weiss
Larry Coryell chronology

Spaces is an album by jazz guitarist Larry Coryell that was released in 1970 by Vanguard Records. Coryell is accompanied by John McLaughlin on guitar, Chick Corea on electric piano, Miroslav Vitouš on bass, and Billy Cobham on drums. The album was produced by Daniel Weiss and engineered by David Baker and Paul Berkowitz.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

The album is sometimes considered to have started the jazz fusion genre.^[5]

The Sessions

The first day was strange’, said Larry, of the sessions. “because Chick and Billy and John had just come from…sessions with Miles. They had definitely been taking some different approaches to the music at that session, because when I threw down the first piece, “Tyrone” by Larry Young, the cats did not play it straight. They were all going into outer space…Almost nothing we played that first day made the cut: it seems as if we got most of the music that went on the record on the second day. It just took a while to get comfortable with each other and the material…Spaces did not do that great upon initial release, but when Vanguard reissued it a few years later, it sold 250,000 copies. Not bad for a record that sounded very little like traditional jazz and nothing like rock.’

Two discarded tracks from the two-day Spaces sessions, ‘Tyrone’ and ‘Planet End’ were released on Planet End in 1975, along with contemporary material by Coryell's then-current band The Eleventh House. (From the book Bathed In Lightning by Colin Harper _ Jawbone Press 2014)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spaces (Infinite)" (Julie Coryell)	9:23
2.	"Rene's Theme" (Réne Thomas)	4:12
3.	"Gloria's Step" (Scott LaFaro)	4:32
4.	"Wrong Is Right" (Larry Coryell)	9:02
5.	"Chris" (Julie Coryell)	9:32
6.	"New Year's Day in Los Angeles 1968" (Larry Coryell)	0:21

Personnel

Larry Coryell – guitar
John McLaughlin – guitar (1,2,4,5)
Chick Corea – electric piano (5)
Miroslav Vitouš – double bass (1,3,4,5)
Billy Cobham – drums (1,3,4,5)

Production

Dave Baker – engineer, mixing
Paul Berkowitz – assistant
Daniel Weiss – producer

References

^ Yanow, Scott. "Spaces". allmusic.com. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Larry Coryell". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306804093. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
^ Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1 ed.). New York: Rolling Stone. p. 21. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Norman, Michael (February 21, 2017). "Larry Coryell, noted jazz fusion guitarist, dead at 73". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved February 21, 2017.

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[1] Yanow, Scott. "Spaces". allmusic.com. Retrieved 9 January 2014.

[2] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Larry Coryell". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306804093. Retrieved July 6, 2014.

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1 ed.). New York: Rolling Stone. p. 21. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[5] Norman, Michael (February 21, 2017). "Larry Coryell, noted jazz fusion guitarist, dead at 73". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved February 21, 2017.

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