Track Listing

1. Zoltan
2. Monk's Dream
3. If
4. Moontrane
5. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
6. Beyond All Limits

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26430 in Music
• Released on: 1999-04-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Warm Sounds, Cool Sounds
I agree with the other reviewer here - Young was pretty unique in that his approach to the electric organ came from a purer jazz camp, as opposed to the earthier r'n b roots of someone like Jimmy McGriff. I'd recommend this album both to those who, like myself are coming backwards to him after years of listening to him on the Tony Williams Lifetime albums and to headnodders who dig their early to mid '60's jazz and like it tight but cool. There's a fabulous warmth to Young's organ sound on this album, and that integrates perfectly with the ensemble playing throughout. Nicely remastered, nicely priced - check it out !

One of the Great Blue Notes
This is surely one of the very greatest Blue Note albums and also one of the most over looked. Recorded at the end of 1965 it features Larry Young on Hammond organ, Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor and Elvin Jones on drums.

On this album Larry Young really moved the organ forward as a Jazz instrument. As much as anyone recording in this period he understood and assimilated the ideas which John Coltrane was pursuing. Young and Coltrane also play their instruments in the same way: with power, emotion and freedom.

Henderson, who writes one tune, and Shaw, who writes three, are both excellent, the tenor man in particular, and add to the power of the album. Elvin Jones plays just as well as he'd been doing for the previous 5 years in Coltrane's band.

I don't think that the great recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder ever captured any instrument's sound as well as the swirling attack of the organ: sometimes pointed and precise, at other times there's a warmth which seems to envelope you.

This reissue is part of the Van Gelder Editions which means that the great man has done the excellent remastering and there are new liner notes.

If you enjoy this, as you can't fail to do, I'd also recommended Young's appearances, in a more conventional format, on two Blue Notes by guitarist Grant Green: `Talkin' About' and `Street of Dreams`.