Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell  –  02.04.1943 – 19.02.2017

Larry Coryell 02.04.1943 - 19.02.2017

Larry Coryell, Pioneering Jazz Fusion Guitarist, Dead at 73

Influential musician who worked with Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and John McLaughlin dies of natural causes

Larry Coryell, one of jazz fusion’s pioneering guitarists, died Sunday in his New York City hotel room of natural causes, according to his publicist. He had played gigs on Friday and Saturday night at the city’s Iridium club and had a spate of summer tour dates on the horizon with his group the Eleventh House. He was 73.

In the mid-to-late Sixties, Coryell broke down genre barriers with his eclectic, fluid playing and experiments with melding plodding rock rhythms with spacious jazz chords. His breakthrough, 1969’s Spaces, featured a who’s who of the nascent fusion genre’s innovators, including guitarist John McLaughlin, pianist Chick Corea and drummer Billy Cobham – all of whom would play on Miles Davis‘ landmark 1970 fusion LP Bitches Brew. He would later play with McLaughlin again in the Guitar Trio, an ensemble that also featured Paco De Lucia and would later include Al Di Meola after Coryell was forced to exit due to drug addiction.

by The Rolling Stone

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