Jazz Articles about Larry Coryell

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Bob Holz: Honoring Larry Coryell

by Glenn Astarita
November 15, 2025

The late Larry Coryell, widely hailed as the godfather of jazz fusion, devoted decades to blending jazz improvisation with rock vitality. His influence on guitar technique still cuts across generations. Drummer and bandleader Bob Holz, a prominent West Coast fusion figure, pays homage through these two vibrant 2015 live sessions. Rather than a static relic, the album engages Coryell's spirit in fresh conversation, delivered by an ensemble intent on pushing forward rather than polishing a tombstone. Coryell's bold ...

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2000-2004 with Alain Caron, Gebe Lake, Tony McAlpine and Jeff Berlin

by Len Davis
December 3, 2023

2000-2004 continued with Alain Caron, drummer Gene Lake, bassist Kai Eckhardt and Stuart Hamm. Guitarist Tony McAlpine, the band Karizma, Jeff Berlin and Larry Coryell-Victor Bailey-Lenny White from Electric. Playlist Alain Caron “Baby Step" from Call Me Al (Las Productioins) 00:00 Gene Lake “Face Da Funk" from Cycles (Passin' Thru) 7:36 Kai Eckhardt “Melting Pot" from Honour, Simplicity, Respect The Flow (Naim Audio)15:12 Stuart Hamm “Castro Hustle" from Outbound (Favoured Nations) 22:52 Tony McAlpine “City Beneath The Sea" from Chromaticity ...

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Larry Coryell's Souls Dirge

by Michael Ricci
March 23, 2023

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Larry Coryell: Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years

by Josef Woodard
February 6, 2023

There have been many smoother operators in the world of jazz guitar than Larry Coryell, the brainy rough rider who was a natural-born fusioneer, in the best sense. There have been cleaner technicians on the instrument, with a more lucid sense of identity and careers that have followed a logical, rolling landscape. But not many have quite attained Coryell's strange, madly eclectic state of grace: into music he came, he saw and heard things not yet articulated, he conquered on ...

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Chico Hamilton: The Dealer

by Zachary Weg
September 15, 2021

Although it came out in 1966, Chico Hamilton's The Dealer (Impulse! Records) still sounds as fresh as Long Beach mist. Leading a quartet that introduced the late guitar virtuoso Larry Coryell and which placed saxophone master Archie Shepp on piano, drummer Hamilton made a record that both showcased his fellow jazz princes and radiated his signature charm. He also crafted an as-yet-unheralded, unexpectedly resonant work of art. Hamilton, who played in high school with Charles Mingus and ...

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Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine: The Last Call

by Phillip Woolever
August 1, 2021

ACT Music released this exceptional concert recording four years to the day after the February 19, 2017 death of 73-year old master guitarist Larry Coryell. The album documents a sensational set Coryell played with the equally skillful Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine at the Berlin Philharmonic. The event was an unplanned but fitting conclusion to their series of collaborations that began at the same location some forty-five years before. The sound dynamics and song selections create a vivid testimonial of musical ...

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Larry Coryell: Larry Coryell's Last Swing With Ireland

by Ian Patterson
June 1, 2021

In his latter life, Larry Coryell was a frequent visitor to Ireland, where he would invariably hitch up with bassist David Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, the esteemed rhythm team for the likes of Tommy Halferty, Bill Carrothers, Norma Winstone and Ian Shaw. In May 2016, during Coryell's last trip to Ireland, he entered Dublin's Hellfire Studios, with Redmond and Brady, to record what would be his final studio album. At around forty-five minutes in duration, Larry Coyell's Last Swing ...