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Larry Coryell (1943-2017)

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Marc Myers
Feb 21, 2017
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Larry Coryell, a guitarist who started out playing rock 'n' roll as a teen but wound up pioneering jazz-rock fusion starting in the mid-1960s and then psychedelic fusion in the early '70s, influencing a generation of guitarists, died on Feb. 19. He was 73.


Born in Texas and raised in Seattle, Coryell studied journalism at the University of Washington whi…

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