Larry Coryell

USA

Born: 02 April 1943

Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, Pop/Rock

Styles: Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Free Jazz, Jazz-Rock

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As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock -- perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some -- Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to a nearly alien sensibility to jazz electric guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, cutting tone, phrasing and note-bending that owed as much to blues, rock and even country as it did to earlier, smoother bop influences. Yet as a true eclectic, armed with a brilliant technique, he is comfortable in almost every style, covering almost every base from the most decibel-heavy, ...

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