Larry Coryell

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Larry Coryell at Jazz im Palmengarten , Frankfurt am Main (2009)

Larry Coryell (born April 2, 1943 in Galveston , Texas , † February 19, 2017 in New York City , New York ) was an American jazz guitarist . After Allmusic he is one of the pioneers of jazz rock . According to Reclam's jazz dictionary, he deserves the credit for opening up new dimensions for the jazz guitar in the 1960s and 1970s .

Life

After graduating, Coryell moved to New York City and succeeded Gábor Szabó as a member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. In the following years he played in the group of Gary Burton , Herbie Mann and the early jazz rock band The Free Spirits, founded with saxophonist Jim Pepper . After an initial collaboration with John McLaughlin and Miroslav Vitouš , he was a member of Wolfgang Dauners Etcetera ( Knirsch , 1972) and founded his group The Eleventh House in 1973 . Volker Kriegel , for example, influenced his game at the time . He experienced the peak of his popularity with this band, which existed until 1975 and to the musicians like Randy Brecker and Alphonse Mouzon belonged.

He then played mainly acoustic guitar, mostly of the Ovation brand , for example in a duo with Philip Catherine , with whom he also took part in recordings by Charles Mingus . Both have also recorded an album ( Young Django , 1979) together with Stéphane Grappelli and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen . As a soloist, he impressed with a standing ovation. With John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía he formed in 1979 a trio that in Europe was on tour (video recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London under the title Meeting of Spirits ) before he left for drug problems and Al Di Meola was replaced .

Since the 1980s, Coryell has mainly played electric guitar again. He was involved in guitar trios with Badi Assad and John Abercrombie as well as with Al Di Meola and Biréli Lagrène and has also played with Elios Ferré . Most recently he worked on the Night of Jazz Guitars project with the German guitarists Andreas Dombert , Paulo Morello and Helmut Kagerer . He last lived in Kissimmee , Florida.

Coryell died of heart failure at the age of 73 in a New York City hotel.

Private

In 1968 he married the writer and actress Julie Nathanson. He has two children with her. Occasionally she sang on his records. In 1985 the couple separated.

Selection discography

Coryell with Stéphane Grappelli, Philip Catherine and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (from left to right)
  • Larry Coryell: Coryell (1969)
  • Spaces (1969)
  • Larry Coryell At the Village Gate (with Mervin Bronson, Harry Wilkinson, Julie Coryell, 1971)
  • The Real Great Escape (1973)
  • Introducing Eleventh House (1974)
  • The Restful Mind (with Ralph Towner , Glen Moore and Collin Walcott , 1975)
  • Standing Ovation (1978)
  • Charles Mingus: Three or Four Shades of Blue (1977)
  • Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (1983)
  • Coryell, Dombert, Morello, Kagerer: Night of Jazz Guitars (2011)
  • Live In Europe 2004 Vol. 1 (2015)
  • Live In Europe 2004 Vol. 2 (2015)
  • Barefoot Man: Sanpaku (2016)
  • Seven Secrets (as Larry Coryell's 11th House) (2016)

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Night of Jazz Guitars
  2. ↑ Guitarist Larry Coryell, Godfather Of Fusion, Dies At 73 , the record, Music News from NPR, February 20, 2017
  3. ↑ Peter Keepnews: Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 . In: The New York Times , February 21, 2017. 
  4. ↑ people.com: Jazz and Rock Are An Explosive Combination: So Are Guitarist Larry Coryell and Wife Julie
personal data
SURNAME Coryell, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Galveston , Texas
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2017
Place of death New York City , New York