Larry Coryell, Paulo Morello, Helmut Kagerer & Andreas Dombert
Horace Silver's "Cookin' at the Continental" opens the album and includes the expected fretboard fireworks from Coryell together with the same from Kagerer, a Wes Montgomery inspired player who sculpts bold, swinging lines. By way of contrast, Dombert's dreamy, chamber-like "Koala" and his adaptation of Miles Davis' and Bill Evans' "Blue in Green" show what a fine arranger he is in addition to being a gifted guitarist. Morello, however, is equally adept at jazz and bossa nova and his skills in the latter department are well to the fore in "Noites Caracas", a rhythmically charged romp through a popular Brazilian song. The concluding "All the Things You Are" teems with swirling counterpoint lines, moving harmonies and complex reharmonisations and makes for a superb finale.
Personnel: Larry Coryell, Paulo Morello, Helmut Kagerer, Andreas Dombert (guitars)
Sun Ra Arkestra
Horace Quintet Tapscott
