Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell is one of those players I keep coming back to. Calling him the godfather of fusion sounds grand, but what I admire most is his refusal to respect genre walls, folding country and rock into jazz long before it was fashionable. The fact that he wrote a magazine column for over a decade tells me he wanted to teach, not just dazzle. Coming out of Galveston and the Mannes school, he had both grit and polish. Since his death in 2017 his freewheeling tone still feels alive to me, and I think his real legacy is permission to be curious.

Name (English)

Larry Coryell

Name (Japanese)

ラリー・コリエル

Reading

らりー・こりえる

Born

April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Galveston, Texas, United States

Occupation

guitarist / composer / music educator / jazz musician / jazz guitarist

High school

Richland High School

University

Mannes College The New School for Music

• Official sitehttps://larrycoryell.net/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Coryell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498715

Tags

• Texas
• guitarist
• composer
• music educator

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.