Larry Young - In Paris - The ORTF Recordings

Larry Young - In Paris - The ORTF Recordings

This double album of previously unreleased recordings captures the legendary jazz organist Larry Young on fire and in his mid-1960s prime.

Tracklist Disc One:
01. Trane of Thought (6:46)
02. Talkin' About JC (14:53)
03. Mean To Me (4:12)
04. La Valse Grise (16:09)
05. Discothèque (10:43)

Tracklist Disc Two:
01. Luny Tune (4:36)
02. Beyond All Limits (7:36)
03. Black Nile (13:59)
04. Zoltan (20:31)
05. Larry's Blues (6:13)

Total Time: 1:45:47

Personnel:
- Larry Young - organ, piano
- Woody Shaw - trumpet
- Nathan Davis - tenor saxophone
- Billy Brooks - drums

- Jack Diéval- piano
- Jean-Claude Fohrenbach - tenor saxophone
- Jacques B. Hess - bass
- Franco Manzecchi - drums
- Sonny Grey - trumpet
- Jacky Bamboo - percussion

Recorded: 1964-1965
Release Date: Mars 11, 2016
Label: Resonance Records

Format: MP3 VBR Quality Level V 0. All songs are tagged by the book.

In addition, a 10 min video - the ORTF Recordings mini-documentary - is included.

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Review by John Fordham
The hellfire-preacher mannerisms that stars like Jimmy Smith popularised have often dominated the Hammond organ's personality in jazz – but not for 1960s/70s Hammondist Larry Young. Young died at 38, leaving a few great Blue Note sessions, work on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, and some raw fusion with the Tony Williams Lifetime. These newly unearthed 1964-65 recordings recently turned up in broadcaster ORTF's archives, featuring the then Paris-resident's radio shows with American and French musicians, fascinatingly including little-known Stan Getzian sax maestro Jean-Claude Fohrenbach. Trumpeter Woody Shaw's blistering, high-register playing and Nathan Davis's nonchalant tenor-sax ruggedness mingle with a series of breathtaking Young improvisations – twisting and quirky on Trane of Thought, sleek and then petrifyingly fierce on Wayne Shorter's Black Nile, percussively wayward on regular piano on the Monk-like Larry's Blues. The dominant style is earthy, early-Coltraneish hard-bop, and there are long processions of solos – but Young's elegantly reckless improvisations lift this music into another league.

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