The Jazz Guitarist: A Man and His Music (Larry Coryell)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Larry Coryell, internationally known guitarist, recording artist for Muse Records and former University of Washington music student, speaks with Upon Reflection host Al Page about jazz. Coryell examines the world of jazz, explaining the roots of the form and his own influences. He offers examples of various types of jazz music on his guitar.
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I met Larry back in 2009 in a town north of Orlando at an outdoor show.....the town had a birthday cake for him...We sat at a table right in front of him......what a kind soft spoken man he was....
As a black guy, I really admire how Larry gives credit to black musicians and acknowledges their innovation with respect to music. I met him many years ago at a jazz club in my hometown of Washington, DC, and in addition to being an accomplished guitar player, he was also a very kind, down-to-earth person. RIP
I have always loved his music since early 70’s. I also admire/respect him as a person. After all, it makes sense - he truly understood the essence of Jazz : Jazz is the African American experience. Larry Coryell was no ordinary musician.
My inspired flute playing directly was influenced from the post bebop jazz voicing of Lee Morgan . To this day, I imagine the incredible music he would have gone on to make but sadly cheated at age 34 . We deserved more and he had much left to give.
I met him at a worship in 2010. I had a copy of the first 11th House album. It wasn’t real busy and he handed me a guitar off the wall and gave me a short private lesson. A great personality!!!
Thats so true. Every time I have heard Larry Cornell speak of the birth of jazz or rock n roll he always credits the original black blues players who were the genesis of those musical movements.
Im a black guy too
I miss Larry so much....
Somewhere in the early Seventies a girlfriend of mine knocked at my door and walked in with a guy who had a guitar case in his hands.
She had met him somewhere in our town Vlissingen in the Netherlands, She had told him that I can play the guitar as well, and so she took him to my house... I did not even recognized him at that moment.
He told us, he was playing in a band and that evening he had a gig in " De Piek " a place where I and all the other local hippies used to hang out.
Many world famous bands used to play there over the years.
The man she took to my house was Larry Coryell !! I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when he told us his name.. OMG there in my house was Larry Coryell !!
We played together for one hour or so, because he had to go back to his Hotel. But when he was leaving he invited us to come to the gig.
Cool fact is, I remember him telling me on my question, that he never let someone play on his guitar, just before a gig...
because I asked him if I could play something on his guitar.
There were no cell phones back then in the Seventies so I have no pictures....Only, when he left he forgot his pick in my house.... and I still have it.
+willem van de broek Nooit gedacht dat larry coryell ooit in de piek heeft gespeeld, jammer dat ik 40 jaar te laat ben, haha.
Als ik hem had ontmoet was ik dolblij geweest; eindelijk iemand in walcheren waarmee je Jazz zou kunnen spelen, maar dan ook echt jazz zonder fratsen .
Achja..
Sincerely, een jazz gitarist uit middelburg.
+Davor Bradara there is always youtube to play along with...
Yeah but it's nowhere near the real thing.
Jazz is communication/life in my perspective, you're not gonna get that part of the experience through a pixel screen, unfortunately.
+third ear productions dude I have you blocked nobody is interested in your nonsense
I love this story. I'd rather have his pick than his photo. Don't lose it dude.
I have always passed Coryell and now its finally time to educate myself.
Phenomenal musician, a gift to the guitar really .
Yeah I was thinking that when he went into an Indian raga at the end! Just shows a love of music with how diverse/versatile and knowledgeable he is.
Freeze this video as a valuable history intro into jazz. Truly good stuff I never have found anywhere else. Good interviewer. I remember seeing Larry with others playing lead guitar in a documentary. I never ever saw anyone dancing fingers across the fret board like him with his thick black frame glasses. My thought was his fingers were "moving like a crab across the guitar". That impression never left me.
Great interview. Larry is really a cool guy. And his knowledge of Music is tremendous.
Larry was very generous with this interview. Believe it or not many people know next to nothing about jazz so the audience may have learned something.
my heart is heavy at the loss of such a great musician , larry was an inovator
LARRY CORYELL,I'll never forget the winter night,in Chicago,Larry dedicated a song 'Pavane' to me,my mother who just passed,he was truly one of the best! And kindest musicians,it showed up in his playing!
That must have been such a moment for you man. Larry was an absolute gentleman and a phenomenal player as you know
Still relevant after all these years and good questions from the interviewer.
Been looking high and low for this, thank god i found it.
Larry Coryell... RIP.
Larry put Jazz/Rock on the map.
First time I've seen a jazz player with a 12 string Ovation.
When I first read a Larry Coryell interview, it was out of Guitar Player magazine. I hung on every word he said even though I had absolutely no concept of what he was actually talking about. I was fascinated by him out of the starting gate. Always have been, and always will be. There is nothing like Eleventh House and Larry Coryell. Period.
This is the best interview with a musician ever. What a very cool and generous interviewee. Total absence of ego.
He seemed very sharp here...maybe he had given up the drugs/alcohol stuff by 1987?...He seemed to have bad luck with relationships--he included his beautiful wife on album covers, and even recruited her to sing on his some of his tunes...but they divorced...then he married a couple more times....but this guy seems so genuine, like having a good neighbor over for coffee!
Yeah, I agree with you. Everything you said.
Fun to watch, what a great guy and player. And damn, his $1700 12 string in 1987 would be about $3800 today.
When Larry plays, at the end...its
magic.
for todays musicians take note ..Larry...no Ego
So interesting. The interviewer is asking him to do some quite difficult things. And boy, Coryell does not disappoint.
Wow! Thanks so much for posting--great stuff.
"Why weren't you born black?"
Dumbest question any interviewer ever asked.
Larry will be playing with a trio in Napa, CA on 1/9/15. Tickets are available, and I'm going. Larry is da bomb!
Bruce Moeller I rue the days when I didn't attend a single concert and he was still alive. :(((
One of my great inspirations on the guitar, EVER.
So cool to hear this. I used to take Wes' and Larry's solos off recordings. I sat for hours and hours in front of the stereo finding the notes.
+teresacello I wore out Wes Montgomery records...and I'm still buying them.
great interview..rip
Professor Coryell -- virtuouso of virtuousi. I saw a Coryell performance in Monterey in which he played blistering runs. And he ends this show -- with an Indian raga in which he makes that 12-string sound like a sitar.
Nice demonstration of bop using "Whispering" as an example at around 5:12. Good video.
Nice guy. Humble and generous.
"OK, I'll do an Indian raga." Truly a world musician. I like that. Honoring a sitar.
I adored Larry Coryell this great muscian and guitarist. I'm ever so saddened I never got to see him and Joe Pass when I had the chance in London. It breaks my heart.
Great interview. Sums up the evolution of all western music.
Can anyone tell me what recordings feature..Larry..playing..Indian Ragas on 12 string acoustic...as beautifully played at the end of this ..doc..Thanks.Thank-You for posting.
Great interview. And 25:40 is surprising personally. Im looking for the name of that song for years! Please someone tell me :)
Moanin‘ by Bobby Timmons, pianist of Art Blakey’sJazz messengers
Wow…..this is gold! Thank you for sharing the wealth! ❤️🎶🎶🍻🇺🇸
Larry is probably my favourite guitarist, taking things overall. He straddled the most genres that I like and played the things I like to hear. A great musician.
Some of his tonal choices were a bit odd at times; like using a 12 string instrument for jazz material.
He was incredibly prolific and threw so much at it all, some of it was bound to work slightly better than other bits.
A magnificent musical career.
Had my picture taken with him at the Lake Wales Jazz Festival...A great player, and nice guy too!
Amazing hair
Yeah...this was 1987, during that Reagan era of shorter, styled hair....I am glad he was still growing his "freak flag"..although it was not really too radical.
Fantastic video with a great player.
From the sound of it, it is hard to believe that that Ovation is an acoustic guitar.
anyone know what chat atkins song he is playing at 15:15
I do like the clean Larry.
Badass with a 12 string guitar!
This is delicious!!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Why can't cameramen film musicians properly. They do closeups of a nose but lag behind in showing the technical work....?????which is what we want to see!!!!!!
He's the cusp of jazz and rock.
Thanks for this!
I own that guitar in the video.
...But not anymore. Now a nice guy named Len D. owns it.
A Master!
25:40 Was that "So what" or "diamond girl" by seals and croft?
Dave Yen
No thats another piece. And im looking for it for a long time. İf you ever learn its name tell me please
Moanin
David mcbride
Moanin, Bobby Timmons
Good ear! Definitely sounds a lot like diamond girl, e minor thing
RIP Larry.
I'm sure Interview Guy learned a lot from Larry's explanation of his 12 string tunings, etc. LOL
Interesting how he mentioned Steve Vai.
Dig that raga, at the end...
cool incorporated...
good guy👌👌👌😁
wow
@8:22
0:37
"AL Page" claps on 1 and 3.
Larry was such a great player.
And a great guy.
The Ovation guitar, which he is using here....... not so much.
Larry Coryell seems like an amazing guy to talk shop with. Al Page comes off as the embodiment of the failed academic who comes off as simultaneously obnoxiously pompous and haplessly inept. I hate to recycle the overused phrase "punchable face" but...
You are reading way too much into this video!
You do realize he's bending and burning licks on a 12 string, right?
Larry, why aren't you black ????
I love when the interviewers ask those really complex questions of the universe...
And Larry replies "I don't know"!
RIP
As a Hendrix fanatic, I wish he had at least dropped a few more names...he know, and did jam with Jimi, in NYC...but did not record with him...too bad!
Larry is very patient in fielding some very, very uninformed questions
SM H to be fair,interviewers sometimes ask simple questions for the sake of the audience .Some in rhe audience may not have the level of understanding that you or i might have.
@@kennybluet5527 Thank you for that! The interviewer knows what he is doing.
Racists
AL_2017 because its easier than anything else
The dude really said why aren’t you black? Lmao! What an ignorant goon. Larry was a phenomenal player and extremely innovative.
That was not an ignorant remark!...it was said in jest, in the first place.
And one last problem i should add is that jazz actually came before blues, so it's not entirely based off of blues.
not sure what hat you pulled that out of
No you're right, i looked it up i was wrong, i thought jazz came first, but in all seriousness how is jazz based off blues? they use completely different time signatures.
theres no 12 bar blues or pentatonic scales thats what defines blues
Blues started when Eve took the apple off the tree.
The one big problem i noticed is that he did not mention countries basis in rock and roll, the basic of rock and roll also comes from country music like chet atkins as well, thats what gives it the more major sound mixed with the minor of blues creating rock and roll.
Ray Charles said it well..."Country music is the White man's Blues".