Larry Coryell R.I.P.

[ghost of miles]

He reportedly passed away after a concert last night. 

[sidewinder]

So sorry to hear his - may he RIP.

[mjzee]

1 hour ago, ghost of miles said:

He reportedly passed away after a concert last night. 

Source?

[StarThrower]

52 minutes ago, mjzee said:

Source?

Somebody on another forum sited Gary Husband's FB page.

[Mary6170]

Larry Coryell's own Facebook page says nothing about it.

[walt]

Julian Coryell,Larry's son, posted on Facebook that his father passed away yesterday.

[clifford_thornton]

Wow. RIP. I'd heard he'd had some health struggles recently, but... sad news.

[soulpope]

Thank you for the music .... R.I.P ....

[Cyril]

R.I.P.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/5v7hmg/news_rip_larry_coryell/

[HutchFan]

Sad to hear this news.  

R.I.P. and thank you for the music.

[mjzee]

R.I.P.  I saw him twice in the '70's... The Eleventh House opened for Captain Beefheart at Town Hall in NYC in 1972 or 1973 (around the time of The Real Great Escape), and when he played SUNY Binghamton around 1975.

[StarThrower]

RIP Larry Coryell and Alphonze Mouzon

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

RIP.  saw Eleventh House original lineup reunion in 2013 (mike mandel was replaced at the last min)

[robertoart]

The great Larry Coryell has passed. I saw him in person for three nights here in Melbourne, Australia in November last year. The memory of those superlative performances is fresh in my mind and heart. It makes this sad news more poignant. . Those nights I recently witnessed represented the pinnacle of what high energy Blues drenched Jazz guitar ever was or ever will be. His minor blues excursions were breathtaking and unsurpassed on those three nights. I once read Mr Coryell say that seeing Grant Green in performance was like witnessing a great philosopher king. Mr Coryell was a great philosopher king in Melbourne in November. 

[ghost of miles]

Listening to a lot of the mid-to-late 1960s recordings right now--live Free Spirits, Gary Burton, Chico Hamilton.  I've had Spaces on my to-get list for the last couple of years and need to pick that up ASAP.  Some good material on Coryell's early years in the book Jazz Rock.

[Hardbopjazz]

Man, all these deaths in recent times are taking away the musicians of my youth. I saw Larry around 1978 when I was turned on to jazz. R.I.P. Larry. Thanks for the music you left the world.

[BFrank]

I was just listening to a Vanguard collection recently. He had such a varied career, and was always in command.

RIP, Larry.

[robertoart]

 

[CJ Shearn]

Man, this is sad.  I saw him in Binghamton at the defunct Night Eagle with an Indian group, they were great.   Really nice guy too, have his autograph on their album, only pressed on CDR I believe.

[duaneiac]

The one and only time I ever saw him was when he was perhaps with the same group CJ Shearn mentioned.  In 2015 he was at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest with Bombay Jazz, a quartet of Larry Coryell, saxophonist George Brooks, bamboo flutist Ronu Majumdar and tabla player Aditya Kalyanpur.  I only saw the last half of their set, but it was very interesting music.

May he Rest In Peace.

[kh1958]

Depressing news.

I recollect seeming him live four times, in very different circumstances. Once in Arlington, Texas, at a bar/club where he played a solo concert on acoustic and electric guitar. It was an impressive performance. Then at the Time Cafe in New York, in a five guitar group playing Mingus compositions. Next playing with a quartet, in the vein of his Muse recordings, at the Blue Note. The last time, at the Granada Theater in Dallas, playing in a trio in the jazz-rock style, but for some reason this evening the music just wasn't working. Unfortunately, no more chances.

 

Edited February 21, 2017 by kh1958

[Gheorghe]

Really depressing, and as Hardbopjazz said, all these musicians who died in the last 10 years are the musicians of our youth. We had all those greats still alive and active on scene, the established masters , and people like Larry Coryell were the "young lions", the musicians who were in their early 30´s and played more "wild". Like Larry Corryell , Alphonse Mouzon.

And I think besides their fans they got a lot of young people to listen to the older masters, like the big selling Mingus had when he decided to get Larry Corryell involved. And I loved it, the way he does it on "Three or Four Shades of the Blues". Because Larry didn´t have to make commitments to adapt his style to the older master. He really could play the way he felt and what he was famous for. I liked his solos much more than the somehow half hearted efforts of Phillipe Caterine or John Scofield on that record. Anyway it seemed that Corryell was the man who would have stayed of Mingus had lived more. A tour with him was allready announced in Europe in late 77, and he was on the last sessions in 1978 (Me myself an Eye etc.).

 

[JohnS]

Sad news.  Although not a fan this has come as something of a shock.

[JSngry]

 

[RogerF]

Talk about a bolt out of the blue. I'd only started a thread on reissues on 11 February about his first time on CD release second eponymously titled album.

RIP Larry, one of the true guitar greats.