Larry Koonse
Larry Koonse (born July 7, 1961) was an American modern jazz guitarist from San
Diego, California. Koonse began playing guitar at age seven and recorded his
debut album, Dave and Larry Koonse – Father and Son Jazz Guitars, with his
father Dave Koonse in 1978. He received a Bachelor of Jazz Studies from the
University of Southern California in 1984. Koonse performed with John Dankworth
and Cleo Laine for six years and collaborated with artists including Tierney
Sutton, Hubert Laws, Michael Bublé, and Linda Ronstadt. During the 1990s, he
taught at the California Institute of the Ar...
