Jazz

Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House. Guitarist Coryell has played with the big names in jazz-rock. His album "Spaces" features John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea. But he's forgotten anything he might have learned from them. Reknowned once for his lightening notebursts and technical fire, Coryell has settled back into a soft-pedaled brand of music which is only a string chorus away from being supermarket sap. July 31-August 3 at the jazz Workshop.

Mandrill. This group pounds out a kind of African R & B which should pack 'em in, at $3.50 a pop, at Paul's Mall through Aug. 3. Or you can see them free at 6 p.m. with the group Indigos tonight at Almost Park in Mattapan, Wednesday at Columbia Point Athletic Field, or Thursday at Franklin Field in Dorchester. Worth the ride.

The East Bay City Jazz Band will be laying down a mainstream sound at the Scotch and Sirloin, followed on Thursday by the Buzzy. Drootin Quintet, perhaps the best house band playing standards in Boston.