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| 1. | Sunshine Fly Away
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| 2. | Khalid of Space, Pt. 2 Welcome
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| 3. | Saudia
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| 4. | Alive
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| 5. | Hello Your Quietness (Islands)
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Jazz
Larry Young - Bongos, Keyboards, Organ, Percussion, Producer, Remixing, Vocals
Abdul Hakim - Bongos, Percussion
Abdul Sahid - Drums
Armen Halburian - Bells, Conga, Percussion
Art Gore - Drums, Piano (Electric)
Cedric Lawson - Piano (Electric)
Charles Magee - Electric Trumpet, Trumpet
Dennis Mourouse - Electric Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Diedre Johnson - Cello
Don Pate - Bass
Howard King - Drums
James Blood Ulmer - Guitar
James Flores - Drums
Joony Booth - Bass
Juini Booth - Bass
Jumma Santos - Conga, Cowbell, Hi Hat, Percussion, Tambourine, Tom-Tom, Whistle (Human)
Pharoah Sanders - Sax (Tenor)
Poppy LaBoy - Percussion
Stacey Edwards - Conga, Percussion
Umar Abdul Muizz - Conga, Percussion
* Alain Beard - Liner Notes
* Eddie Korvin - Engineer, Remixing
* Fred Stark - Design
* John Reed - Coordination, Reissue Coordination
* Reginald Wickham - Photography
* Sarah Southin - Design, Reissue Design
The late Larry Young was an organist whose fairly brief career had lots of highs and very few middles or lows. Take this session from 1973 -- his first non-Blue Note date as a leader and post-Lifetime -- as a for instance. It is startling for its fresh look at how the organ is used in jazz and in improvisation, period. On Lawrence of Newark, Young enlisted a host of younger New York session cats who were hanging around the fringes of the funk and avant-garde scenes -- James Blood Ulmer, trumpeter Charles MacGee, Cedric Lawson, and about a dozen others all jumped into Young's dark and freaky musical stew. Made up of only five tracks, rhythm is the hallmark of the date as evidenced by the conga and contrabass intro to "Sunshine Fly Away." Deirdre Johnson's cello opens up a droning modal line for Young to slide his organ over in what passes for a melody but is more of an idea for a theme and a trio of variations. Armen Halburian's congas echo the accents at the end of the drum kit and Young's own tapering pronouncements moving back and forth between two and four chords with a host of improvisers inducing a transcendent harmonic hypnosis. The centerpiece of the album is "Khalid of Space Pt. 2: Welcome." Sun Ra's edict about all of his musicians being percussionists holds almost literally true in Young's case. The soprano saxophonist sounds as if it could be Sonny Fortune (billed as "mystery guest"), but he's way out on an Eastern modal limb. Young's right hand is punching home the counterpoint rhythm as Abdul Shadi runs all over his kit. Blood Ulmer is accenting the end of each line with overdriven power chords, and various bells, drums, congas, and djembes enter and depart the mix mysteriously. Young is digging deep into the minor and open drone chords, signaling -- à la Miles -- changes in intonation, tempo, and frequency of rhythmic attack. And the cut never loses its pocket funk for all that improvisation. It's steamy, dark, brooding, and saturated with groove. The CD reissue has fine sound and sells for a budget price; it should not be overlooked. The DJs just haven't discovered this one yet. Awesome.
--- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Larry Young
Active Decades: '60s and '70s
Born: Oct 07, 1940 in Newark, NJ
Died: Mar 30, 1978 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Avant-Garde Jazz
If Jimmy Smith was "the Charlie Parker of the organ," Larry Young was its John Coltrane. One of the great innovators of the mid- to late '60s, Young fashioned a distinctive modal approach to the Hammond B-3 at a time when Smith's earthy, blues-drenched soul-jazz style was the instrument's dominant voice. Initially, Young was very much a Smith admirer himself. After playing with various R&B bands in the 1950s and being featured as a sideman with tenor saxman Jimmy Forrest in 1960, Young debuted as a leader that year with Testifying, which, like his subsequent soul-jazz efforts for Prestige, 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 way to becoming a major innovator. Coltrane's post-bop influence asserted itself more and more in Young's playing and composing, and his work grew much more cerebral and exploratory. Unity, 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 work turned uneven and erratic as the '70s progressed. Young was only 38 when, in 1978, he checked into the hospital suffering from stomach pains, and died from untreated pneumonia. The Hammond hero's work for Blue Note (as both a leader and a sideman) was united for Mosaic's limited-edition six-CD box set The Complete Blue Note Recordings.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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