Larry Coryell spent his last night playing at New York's Iridium jazz club for a crowd that was well aware of his reputation as one of the greatest guitarists in the world. Backed by a talented ...

Larry Coryell, a virtuoso guitarist who in the 1960s was among the first musicians to bring a rock sound and sensibility to jazz, and who continued to blur the lines between genres throughout his ...

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 ...

IN the mid-1960s, jazz-rock was a “scary term," not only for audiences but also for the musicians who played it. “At that time, even the people who were creating that genre like myself, just felt like ...

NEW YORK — Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, known as the “Godfather of Fusion,” has died in New York City. He was 73. His publicist, Kurt Nishimura, said Coryell died Sunday in his hotel room of natural ...

For jazz guitar master Larry Coryell, if one guitar makes beautiful music, five guitars can do it five times more beautifully. That’s why, for his debut performance at the Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest ...

The career of jazz guitar great Larry Coryell, who died on February 19 at age 73, is in some sense a microcosm of jazz itself, in all its stylistic and aesthetic breadth. Steeped in the hard-swinging ...

Eclectic guitar legend Larry Coryell, whose memorable performances in San Diego date back to at least the 1970s, died Sunday in New York City. The Texas native was 73 and “passed away in his sleep at ...

Larry Coryell, a guitarist of spectacular technique who defied and redefined musical boundaries as a leader of the movement fusing jazz and rock in the late 1960s and 1970s, died Feb. 19 at a hotel in ...

Larry Coryell was such a distinguished and distinctive guitarist to call him underrated seems ludicrous. But scrolling through about a dozen "best jazz guitarist" lists, I found the same legendary ...

Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, known as the “Godfather of Fusion,” has died in New York City. He was 73. His publicist, Kurt Nishimura, said Coryell died Sunday in his hotel room of natural causes.