Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell ( born April 2, 1943 in Galveston, Texas) is an American jazz guitarist. According to Allmusic he is one of the pioneers of jazz-rock. After Reclams jazz lexicon him belongs the merit of having opened up a new dimension in the 1960s and 1970s, the jazz guitar.

Life

After studying Coryell moved to New York City and was the successor of Gábor Szabó Chico Hamilton Quintet member. In the following years he played in the group of Gary Burton, with Herbie Mann and founded with saxophonist Jim Pepper early jazz-rock band The Free Spirits. After a first interaction with John McLaughlin and Miroslav Vitouš he was a member of Wolfgang Dauner Etcetera ( Knirsch, 1972) and founded in 1973 his group, The Eleventh House. His former game influenced, for example, Volker Kriegel. The height of his popularity he experienced with this band, which existed until 1975 and were among the musicians as Randy Brecker and Alphonse Mouzon.

Then he played mainly acoustic guitar, 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 convinced with a standing ovation. With John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía he made in 1979 a trio that was on tour in Europe (video recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London entitled Meeting of Spirits ) before he left for drug problems and was replaced by Al Di Meola.

Since the 1980s, Coryell plays again mainly electric guitar. In recent years, he was the guitar trio with Badi Assad and John Abercrombie as well as with Al Di Meola and Biréli Lagrène involved (video recordings) and has also played with Elios Ferré. In his current project Night of Jazz Guitars he works with the German guitarist Andreas Dombert, Paulo Morello and Helmut Kagerer. He now lives in Kissimmee, Florida.

Auswahldiscographie

  • Larry Coryell: Coryell (1969 )
  • Spaces (1969 )
  • 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)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia, Stuttgart 2003; ISBN 3-15-010528-5
Galveston (Texas) John McLaughlin (musician) John Abercrombie (guitarist) Leonard Feather Integrated Authority File
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