Genre: Jazz Fusion
Places I remember: Viking's Haul (Woodville)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/Gear costume: Gypsy Queen
Active compensatory factors: Virtuoso fusion guitar playing doesn't get much better than Larry Coryell. As one critic summed up, Larry's style of fusion was: complex and virtuosic yet easily accessible, at times intense, at others fun-filled, and always with the feeling of the unknown that comes with truly spontaneous and inspired improvisation.
This album has some sublime moments.
Side one has two tracks (Gypsy Queen is familiar thanks to Santana's version) and then the side long Call To The Higher Consciousness is stunning (even though the drum solo middle section doesn't do much for me).
Apparently a jam session, but it sounds thought out and complete to me - starting with a whirlwind of sound before getting into a looping stride with soprano sax, piano and guitar interactions which explore the time and space created between the bass and drums in a vivid lyrical conversation.
Where do they all belong? Larry was always searching, moving forward, to the next thing - in the mid seventies this was The Eleventh House band.
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