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Larry Young – Contrasts (Full Album)

Larry Young Trio – Testifying

Testifyingis the debut album led by jazz organist Larry Young which was recorded in 1960 and released on the New Jazz label.

Personnel:

Larry Young – organ

Joe Holiday – tenor saxophone (tracks 3 & 7)

Thornel Schwartz – guitar

Jimmie Smith – drums

Reception

Larry Young – Unity

Unity is an album by jazz organist Larry Young, released on the Blue Note label in August, 1966. The album features trumpeter Woody Shaw, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and drummer Elvin Jones. While not free jazz, the album features experimentation that was innovative for the time. Young chose the title because, “although everybody on the date was very much an individualist, they were all in the same frame of mood. It was evident from the start that everything was fitting together.” The album was Young’s second for Blue Note, and is widely considered a “post-bop” classic.

Larry Young – Into Somethin’

Into Somethin’ is a 1965 album by jazz organist Larry Young, which is also his debut for Blue Note records. It features a quartet of Young, tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers, guitarist Grant Green and drummer Elvin Jones.

“The music is fairly complex, grooving in its own fashion and showing that Young was quite aware of John Coltrane’s modal excursions,”- Scott Yanow/AllMusic.

Larry Young – Of Love And Peace

Of Love and Peace is an album by organist Larry Young. It was recorded in 1966 and was released by Blue Note Records in 1967.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as “a fine effort which takes a mostly obscure band through some fascinating ideas”. The AllMusic reviewer called it a “stimulating Blue Note date”.

The Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency!

Larry Young – Groove Street