''Spaces'' is an album by jazz guitarist

Larry Coryell Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. Early life Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He w ...

that was released in 1970 by

Vanguard Records Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It was a primarily classical label at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, but also has a catalogue of recordings by a n ...

. Coryell is accompanied by

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on guitar,

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

on electric piano,

Miroslav Vitouš Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. Biography Born in Prague, Vitouš began the violin at age six, switching to piano after about three years, and then to bass at age fourteen. As a young man in Europe, ...

on bass, and

Billy Cobham William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian Americans, Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was indu ...

on drums. The album was produced by Daniel Weiss and engineered by David Baker and Paul Berkowitz. The album is sometimes considered to have started the

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

genre.

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 The Eleventh House was a jazz fusion group of the 1970s, led by the guitarist Larry Coryell. The band was formed in 1972 and disbanded in 1975. Other members included Mike Mandel (keyboards) and Alphonse Mouzon (drums). The band recorded their fir ...

. (From the book ''Bathed In Lightning'' by Colin Harper _ Jawbone Press 2014)

Track listing

Personnel

– guitar *

– guitar (1,2,4,5) *

– electric piano (5) *

– double bass (1,3,4,5) *

– drums (1,3,4,5) Production * Dave Baker – engineer, mixing * Paul Berkowitz – assistant * Daniel Weiss – producer

References

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