Larry Coryell - Advice for Up and Coming Musicians 

Wow that’s an incredible story, so cool. Any more details about the show later that night?

moron

The best of the best black jazz musicians praised Larry Coryell for being the supreme player he was. I wonder if you are on such a level to be making the sort of proclamations you are making. You might want to get over it.

In short: art doesn't appear in a vacuum. It is the result of the culture in which it was created.

My very first class in playing jazz the teacher stated it comes from the African American experience. The very first thing he said!!. You're statement started with BS and it continued. Music isn't racial. People are. Morgan Freeman says it right. Quit talking about it and just relate as human beings. No black, white, brown, yellow or red. Just people. We are fools labeling each other. I am a human being. That's it. Not Irish. Not white. Not anything. Just a human being. Like everyone else.

James - Adam Rafferty here. I remember you from the days of the Izzy Bar in NYC and the small Zinc bar on Houston ST. You are an incredible musician! Wow, crazy - I was seeking you out and watching your videos just yesterday - and here I see your comment today. Regarding your statement, my teacher emphasized the importance of the African rhythmic concept and the African American experience. He was the late pianist Mike Longo, and he learned & played on the bandstand with Dizzy from 64-71. Mike taught me and his other students the same African drum rudiment that DIZZY showed him, and would not let us even touch our instruments until we got the grooves perfect and got the hand drum RINGING with the correct presence of sound, touch and groove. That backbone enabled me to play thousands of gigs downtown, in Harlem, and tour with Dr Lonnie Smith, Alvin Queen and others. In fact, Mike played with Cannonball as a youngster - and because he knew how important culture was on learning the music made me "cross the tracks" i.e. go to Harlem when I was 19 because he believed there were 2 kinds of jazz musicians - those who cross the tracks, and those who don't. The African rhythmic concept is 1000 times more important to jazz than any cleverness that many modern players come up with. In fact, I'd rather play with some good R&B cats than "museum style" jazz cats who only spit back licks. I know you agree. And you can't learn it simply by clicking a metronome on 2 & 4. The "metronome concept" hardly accounts for the spiritual depth in the rhythm, but it's convenient for music schools and for people who have no idea about the true groove. So - just wanted to let you know that jazz as an African American experience is in fact being uttered, and taught by the right people, and in a way that embraces and invites all of humanity - while respectfully acknowledging the roots of the music.

Great truth

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Wow! You are truly fortunate..I ended up with Dick Lurie at Cleveland State. The scars from the grilling are still healing up. I did learn a lot from him,despite his curmudgeonlyness.

Not underrated -- those of us who love music, who love jazz, love Larry.

He’s been there for decades. I’m rate him …high.

dude, that Dr King's inspired tune. Was of such a good taste.

underated? you mean the other guitarist are over rated compared to him, he is on a different whole level

what?

m hampton

I'm really glad it worked out for you Jeremy. I love the jazzers...totally blown away by their expertise and general wonderfulness, very jealous knowing I could never achieve that standard. Still, over the past 40 years, I've established a personal style nobody could copy and probably wouldn't want to. A mix of John Martyn, Steve Hillage some Jansch but definitely no words

It's the first movement from the "Mother Goose Suite" (Ma Mere l'Oye) originally written as a piano duet for children and later brilliantly orchestrated by Ravel.

robert72744 Thank you very much.

+ArtyoneT I have been listening to him since 72,... this is the best sounding guitar he has palyed

Looks like the Loar.

It is a new archtop built by Ken Parker..known for the Parker "Fly" guitar.

Impressions, by John Coltrane. He plays the melody a bit earlier than that.

Assume you mean unaccompanied guitar. In somewhat chronological logical order: standing ovation, European impressions, American odyssey, Rite of Spring- Petrochka- Firebird suite by Stravinsky, new york blues, Scheherazade by Rimsky Korsakav, Bolero, Visions in Blue, dragon gate, 12 frets to one octave, Private concert. A very large canvas of music!

Wow! Thank you leoosiku.

Welcome

old comment... but if you see this I think it was Pavane For a Princess... pretty sure

"Ma mère l'oye"

Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty

it is a chizprout made by Milos Cragnette

JP Algarath Thank you

It's a Parker PJ14

A nice one.

BS

i guess the thing is that it does and yet it doesn't. Music doesn't develop in a vacuum, all different styles overlap and integrate but at the same time they are all performed differently with different rules and ways of playing, and the jazz way of playing, (stylistically and traditionally speaking) is a completely different animal than folk and classic

Oh yes there is a musical linkage to folk and classical. It's up to you as a jazz musician to create one.

He is just generalising on the fact that to play true Jazz you have to embrace the African American experience which is outside of western folk/ classical tradition. Of course from a harmonic, etc point there are links between Jazz and many other types of music. However, unless that key element is in your consciousness you will only play the notes in Jazz. It's a shame many find that hard to accept.

I disagree, I think its important to have some sort of appreciation for the people and cultures that music comes from. I dont think music exists purely for entertainment, but to understand that a persons art is a literal extension of themselves, a telling of their life.

Stan Kowalski what a horrible analogy...

Henung Homseby u miss the boat about Cordell, it's about the poetry within the music. Distillation

If you live for smooth jazz that's your problem. I would be embarrassed to have uttered your statement.

Henung Homseby listen to spaces an you might change your mind!!!

I am not surprised your site shows no subscribers. Try to find something positive to say for your own sake, man.

That's because you are an idiot.