"This is all Coltrane, from his early/middle/late period, whatever that means!" laughs guitarist Larry Coryell. He is sitting backstage in the green room at Iridium in 2009, describing a chart he is about to try out with organist Joey DeFrancesco. "And then this part here is very much like 'All Blues,' like Miles," he says, humming the line: "Bah-deh-doo-deh, DAY-deh-doo-dee, doo-dah-doo-dah, duh—it's in that same chord, that same mode." Indicating the next section, he continues, "And then it goes, here, into something more like Stan Kenton, there [pointing] and then it gets into an implied 12-tone fugue later on here," he says, singing the part: "Bah-doo-dah-duh, bah-doo-dah-DAH, doo-dah dah, doo-dah dah, dah-dah—like that." The chart, a so-called 'production number,' serves as a microcosm of Coryell's career . . . .