Jazztodon artist of the week: Larry Young! From our friends at @aaj :
A true innovator on the Hammond B3, Young took a different musical path than any of the other organ masters of his time. He eventually turned to a more complex, modal approach to the organ with sophisticated harmonic and chordal structures.
After a rhythm and blues apprenticeship, Young gained wider experience with Lou Donaldson; worked around New York and New Jersey with Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley and Tommy Turrentine, among others; and then began heading his own units.He recorded his first sides for Prestige in 1960. He jumped over to the Blue Note label, and Young's premier album is thought to be “Unity," which came out in 1965.
Young played with Miles Davis in 1969, on the “Bitches Brew,” sessions, worked with John McLaughlin, and then Tony Williams' groundbreaking 'Lifetime' in the early '70's, where he was an important third of that band, one of the first jazz fusion groups.
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