Consumer Guide Album

Larry Coryell: Offering [Vanguard, 1972]
Jazz-rock goes progressive, by which I mean cool, man. Coryell is himself, by which I mean a chameleon. But Steve Marcus sticks strictly to soprano, and Mike Mandel makes like he doesn't want anybody to know he once played piano in a (shh) rock band. Peak experience: "Scotland I," which lays out a theme worthy of Mahavishnu. In fact, I'd almost swear I'd heard it before. C+