Larry Karush, born on 6 October 1946 was an American pianist and percussionist who earned a Master of Arts from New York University. He first gained prominence in 1976 as one of four pianists in Steve Reich’s ensemble for Music for 18 Musicians and released his own recordings that same year. In 1988, he released Piano Crossroads, followed by Art of the Improviser (1998) and Rhythms & Meditations (2003), while touring with his own ensemble and collaborating with John Abercrombie, Jane Ira Bloom, and Oregon. Karush received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was nominated for the Herb Alpert Foundation Prize in 2008. He died on 27 August 2013 after a battle with liver cancer.
