{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Lady Coryell | type = studio | artist = Larry Coryell | cover = lady_coryell.jpg | alt = | released = 1969 | recorded = 1968 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz, jazz fusion | length = {{Duration|m=39|s=29}} | label = Vanguard | producer = Larry Coryell, Danny Weiss | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Coryell | next_year = 1969 }} '''''Lady Coryell''''' is the debut album by jazz fusion guitarist Larry Coryell, recorded when he was 25.<ref name="Todd" />
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Todd">{{cite web|last1=Todd|first1=Jim|title=Lady Coryell|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lady-coryell-mw0000175813|website=AllMusic|accessdate=13 August 2011}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RSJRG">{{cite book|editor1-last=Swenson|editor1-first=John|title=The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen|url-access=registration|date=1985|publisher=Rolling Stone|location=New York|isbn=0-394-72643-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/51 51]|edition=1}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Village Voice'' | rev4Score = B+<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=September 18, 1969|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg4.php|title=Consumer Guide (4)|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|accessdate=May 13, 2016}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=308}}</ref> }} Lady Coryell was mostly ignored upon release but later received positive reviews. Robert Christgau stated, "Larry Coryell is the greatest thing to happen to the guitar since stretched gut" and "this is far more satisfying but still crabbed and uneven".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Christgau |first1=Robert |title=Consumer Guide Album |url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=11527 |website=robertchristgau.com |accessdate=3 June 2020}}</ref> ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' had a mostly positive review, saying that Larry Coryell was "one of the most creative and accomplished modern electric guitarists."<ref name="RSJRG">{{cite book|editor1-last=Swenson|editor1-first=John|title=The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen|url-access=registration|date=1985|publisher=Rolling Stone|location=New York|isbn=0-394-72643-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/51 51]|edition=1}}</ref> Jim Todd, writing for AllMusic, stated, "This 1968 set is for anyone who felt let down when the early '70s promise for a truly creative, genre-busting fusion of jazz and rock swiftly disappeared in a wave of vapid, show biz values and disco frippery", but also stated that "the album's only lapse is the country corn of 'Love Child Is Coming Home', where Coryell tries to transcend one genre too many."<ref name="Todd"/>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Larry Coryell except where noted
| title1 = Herman Wright | length1 = 3:21
| title2 = Sunday Telephone | length2 = 2:27
| title3 = Two Minute Classical | length3 = 2:08
| title4 = Love Child Is Coming Home | length4 = 2:31
| title5 = Lady Coryell | length5 = 6:31
| title6 = The Dream Thing | length6 = 2:23
| title7 = Treats Style | note7 = Jimmy Garrison | length7 = 5:42
| title8 = You Don't Know What Love Is | note8 = Gene de Paul, Don Raye | length8 = 2:35
| title9 = Stiff Neck | length9 = 7:12
| title10 = Cleo's Mood | note10 = Junior Walker | length10 = 4:20 }}
==Personnel== * Larry Coryell – guitars, bass, vocals * Jimmy Garrison – bass (on 7) * Bob Moses – drums * Elvin Jones – drums (on 7 and 9)
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Larry Coryell}}
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