 Artist: Larry Young: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Discography:  Of Love and Peace Year: 2004 Tracks: 1  Mother Ship Year: 2003 Tracks: 1 If Jimmy Smith was "the Charlie Parker of the organ," Larry Young was its John Coltrane. One of the shattering innovators of the mid to late '60s, Young fashioned a classifiable modal approach to the Hammond B-3 at a time when Smith's earthy, blues-drenched soul-jazz stylus was the instrument's predominant voice. Initially, Young was very much a Smith champion himself. After playing with versatile R&B bands in the fifties and organism featured as a sideman with tenor saxman Jimmy Forrest in 1960, Young debuted as a leader that class with Testifying, which, like his subsequent soul-jazz efforts for Prestige, Danton True Young Blues (1960), and Groove Street, (1962), left no doubt that Smith was his elemental inspiration. But when Young went to Blue Note in 1964, he was well on his room to becoming a major groundbreaker. Coltrane's post-bop influence asserted itself more than and more in Young's playing and composing, and his counterfeit grew practically more than cerebral and explorative. I, recorded in 1965, corpse his best-known album. Quick to embracing fusion, Young played with Miles Davis in 1969, John McLaughlin in 1970, and Tony Williams' groundbreaking ceremony Lifetime in the early '70s. Unfortunately, his ferment off spotty and temperamental as the '70s progressed. Young was only 38 when, in 1978, he checked into the hospital hurt from stomach striving, and died from untreated pneumonia. The Hammond hero's ferment for Blue Note (as both a draftsmanship card and a sideman) was joined for Mosaic's limited edition six-CD box determine The Complete Blue Note Recordings. |
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