Larry Young (jazz musician)

Larry Young (* 7. October 1940 in Newark , New Jersey as Larry John McCoy , † the 30th March 1978 in New York City ) was an American jazz organist and composer.

Live and act

Young learned to play the piano and organ from his father, Larry Young I. Although he played rhythm & blues in his early days from 1957 , he quickly found his way to free play on the organ with a few intermediate steps. He was probably the first musician on this instrument who left the paths of Jimmy Smith , Jimmy McGriff or Jack McDuff and conjured up free jazz timbres from the Hammond B3 .

Young recorded his first album (for Prestige Records ) in 1960. In 1962 he toured Europe for the first time (with trumpeter Woody Shaw ). Between 1964 and 1969 he recorded several albums for the Blue Note label. Its owners, Lion and Wolff, were convinced by Jimmy Smith that the organ could be a jazz instrument. On his Unity album on Blue Note, Woody Shaw got more notice than himself, although he plays superbly. Lou Donaldson , Kenny Dorham , Hank Mobley and Grant Green hired the Newark organist in the 1960s, and the LPs on New Jazz under his own name gave him the opportunity to find new paths. He was involved in Herbie Hancock's score for Blow Up and the Bitches Brew session with Miles Davis , and jammed with Jimi Hendrix . In Tony Williams Lifetime together with John McLaughlin (and from 1970 with Jack Bruce ) he created new sounds on the difficult path between jazz and rock at the transition into the 1970s; during this time he changed his name to Khalid Yasin (Abdul Aziz) . He later recorded with Lenny White's sextet . The album Lawrence of Newark (1973) was added to the list in 1998 "Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening) 100" by The Wire added.

Larry Young died of untreated pneumonia.

Publications

Albums under your own name

• Testifying (New Jazz / OJC, 1960)
• Young blues (New Jazz / OJC, 1960)
• Groove Street (Prestige / OJC, 1962)
• Into Somethin ' ( Blue Note Records , 1964)
• Unity (Blue Note, 1965) with Woody Shaw
• Of Love and Peace (Blue Note, 1966) with Eddie Gale
• Contrasts (Blue Note, 1967)
• Heaven on Earth (Blue Note, 1968)
• Mother Ship (Blue Note, 1969)
• Lawrence of Newark (Perception, 1973)
• Larry Young's Fuel ( Arista Records , 1975)
• Spaceball (Arista, 1975)
• The Magician (Acanta / Bellaphon , 1977)
• In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance, ed. 2016)

Albums as a sideman

• Grant Green : Talkin 'About! (Blue Note, 1964)
• Grant Green : Street of Dreams (Blue Note, 1964)
• Grant Green : I Want To Hold Your Hand (Blue Note, 1965)
• Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency! (Polydor, 1969)
• Tony Williams Lifetime: Turn It Over (1970)
• Tony Williams Lifetime: Ego (1971)

Collections

• The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Larry Young - (1964–69) - ( Mosaic 1991) - 9 LP or 6 CDs with Grant Green , Elvin Jones , Sam Rivers , Bobby Hutcherson , Hank Mobley , Joe Henderson , Woody Shaw , James Spaulding , Herbert Morgan ts, Hank White flg, Eddie Wright g, Eddie Gladden , Stacy Edwards , Althea Young voc, Byard Lancaster , George Benson , Lee Morgan

Lexigraphic entries

• Richard Cook: Jazz Encyclopedia . London 2007, ISBN 978-0-14-102646-6
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
• Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Web presence with discography