 Artist: Larry Young: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Larry Young's discography:  Of Love and Peace Year: 2004 Tracks: 1  Mother Ship Year: 2003 Tracks: 1 If Jimmy Smith was "the Charlie Parker of the reed organ," Larry Young was its John Coltrane. One of the shattering innovators of the mid to recent '60s, Young fashioned a classifiable average approach to the Hammond B-3 at a time when Smith's earthy, blues-drenched soul-jazz stylus was the instrument's prevalent voice. Initially, Young was very much a Smith champion himself. After playing with various 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 primary inspiration. But when Young went to Blue Note in 1964, he was well on his room to comely a major groundbreaker. Coltrane's post-bop influence asserted itself more than and more in Young's playing and composing, and his forge grew practically more than cerebral and explorative. I, recorded in 1965, remains his best-known album. Quick to embrace fusion, Young played with Miles Davis in 1969, John McLaughlin in 1970, and Tony Williams' groundbreaking Lifetime in the early '70s. Unfortunately, his ferment off uneven and temperamental as the '70s progressed. Young was only 38 when, in 1978, he checked into the hospital hurt from stomach pains, and died from untreated pneumonia. The Hammond hero's ferment for Blue Note (as both a draft card and a sideman) was united for Mosaic's limited edition six-CD box determine The Complete Blue Note Recordings. |
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