The Supernova that Was Jazz-Rock Fusion

The Texas- born "Godfather of Fusion" emigrated across country in 1965 to attend New York's Mannes School of Music. He was coming from the state of Washington where he had attended college at the University of Washington and where his family had been living on the Columbia River since the early Fifties. In The City he quickly insinuated himself into the music scene, hanging out at The Scene to watch (and meet) the latest shakers and movers in the industry and eventually getting the gig of sitting in for Gabor Szabó in Chico Hamilton's quintet while also meeting and playing with open-minded musical adventurer Gary Burton as well as his own first band mates, Columbus "Chip" Baker, Chris Hills, Jim Pepper, and long-time collaborator, drummer Bob Moses. From his first exposure to the dynamic sounds of bands like Cream and Jimi Hendrix Experience, Larry became obsessed with trying to fuse these powerful sounds with his own training as a jazz musician. Thus was bo...