Larry Coryell – Gypsy Queen (45 Edit)
Larry Coryell
Listen/Download Larry Coryell – Gypsy Queen (45 edit)
Greetings all
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The tune I bring you today is a little something I picked up while out digging earlier this year.
I – like many of my generation – first became aware of the song ‘Gypsy Queen’ via the version by Santana, recorded for the ‘Abraxas’ album in 1970.
It was a few years on down the line that I was hepped to the original version by the master Gabor Szabo on his 1966 ‘Spellbinder’ album (you can hear that version by checking out Funky16Corners Radio v.24.5 in the archive).
I had no idea that Larry Coryell had recorded ‘Gypsy Queen’ until I happened upon the 45 you see before you today.
He waxed in in 1971 for his debut on Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman label, ‘Barefoot Boy’.
The LP version of the track runs over eleven minutes, with the 45 coming in at just under three minutes.
I have heard the LP edit, and unless you have a taste for extended jazz freakouts/solos, the 45 really delivers all you need to hear.
The band, with Coryell leading on guitar included Steve Marcus on soprano sax (heard a lot here) and Roy Haynes on drums, among others.
This truncated version of the tune encapsulates the crossover between jazz and late 60s rock that Coryell and Marcus were both a big part of.
Things are jazzy enough, with a fair amount of psychedelia mixed in and the band really does justice to Szabo’s OG.
I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Very fine stuff, sir, as always. Thank you, and best holiday wishes to you and yours.
Thanks Jim! Same to you and yours.