LARRY YOUNG — Into Somethin'

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3.82 | 10 ratings | 3 reviews

Album · 1964

Filed under Hard Bop
By LARRY YOUNG

Tracklist

A1 Tyrone
A2 Plaza De Toros
B1 Paris Eyes
B2 Backup
B3 Ritha

Line-up/Musicians

Drums – Elvin Jones
Guitar – Grant Green
Organ – Larry Young
Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers

About this release

Blue Note – BST 84187

Recorded on November 12, 1964, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

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'Into Somethin' was Larry Young's first record with Blue Note, and it shows him moving past his blues/jazz roots and 'Into Somethin' a little more adventurous. It will still be about four more years before Young will be recording ground breaking psychedelic jazz/fusion with Miles, McLaughlin, Santana and Hendrix, but you can hear the first signs of that restless need for exploration on this album. This was a whole new band for Larry, gone are the more traditional blues/jazz musicians he made his first couple records with. In their place are two giants of the avant-garde, Elvin Jones and Sam Rivers, and groove jazz guitarist Grant Green. Throughout this album Jones and Rivers push at the boundaries while Green stays in the pocket and Young stays traditional for Green's solos, but then joins Jones in helping push Rivers' saxophone solos into more avant-garde territory.

Even the tunes themselves are a mixed bag, with 'Tyrone' and 'Plaza de Toros' giving the band a little more room to go off, while the other three songs show the band staying in a more traditional mode. On 'Tyrone' you can hear Larry developing some of the minimalist type repeating lines that will come to the forefront on his avant-garde fusion recordings in the 70s. Throughout this album you can hear Young breaking from traditional blues based B3 scales and into more quartal type arpeggios and stacked fourth chords, these sounds will go onto to be a big influence on modern rock keyboardists such as Brian Auger and Keith Emerson.

This isn't one of Young's best records, but it isn't bad. Throughout this recording his B3 solos rank with the very best and you can never go wrong with Elvin Jones on drums, but I just prefer to hear Larry in a less conservative setting, which is exactly where he will be heading on subsequent recordings as he heads into post bop and then some very outside fusion.

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Matt

This was Larry's 2nd album with Blue Note records and his first under his name. Released in 1964 and produced by Alfred Lion and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. Sidemen are Sam Rivers on tenor sax,Grant Green on guitar and Elvin Jones on drums. Larry Young sure was no Jimmy Smith and that is immediately apparent when listening to his technique on the organ.Where as Jimmy Smith, John Patton,Freddie Roach and the others on the Blue Note Label were players more inclined to play groove Larry Young was more introspective and used the organ more as a vehcile for solos as inclined to be used by a pianist but still could maintain rythmn as there is no bass used.

The first track" Tyrone "is a Larry composition as all the other tracks are also composed by Larry except track 2," Plaza De Toros" which was a Grant Green number. The tune " Tyrone" rolls along in a relaxed groove and Larry is first up with the solo followed by Grant on guitar and Sam Rivers on Sax .

"Plaza de Toros",Grant Green comes in first ,followed by Sam on sax and then Larry.Grant Green has written the piece with a latin tinge and of course I love the track. Sam rivers solo is great, how he gets that latin feel is beautiful on his tenor.

On "Ritha" the last track there is no Sam he was ommitted as Larry was more after a trio for this tune. A quiet relaxed piece as is the whole album. This is not out there but more inclined to be a straight up Jazz album which would change but one can still hear that things were evolving with Larry and Hard Bop was starting to tire with the fans and muscians at this time and Jazz was changing again and heading towards the Avante Garde and a more free approach which ia apparent in Larry's later albums to come.

4 Stars great album with a typical great Blue Note production by the man himself Alfred Lion

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Mssr_Renard

I initially gave this album 3,5* but am inclined to give it a 4*-rating and I want to explain why.

At first I thought this album was rather tame, and because I like blues and hard rock, I was used to growling Hammonds (Uriah Heep for instance). I already was familiar with jazz-organ through Soulive, but found that band a bit on the tame side aswell.

But I was fooled. Although the guitar and hammond are clean (no effects) they are not tame. The quartet featured here know how to swing and play a tight and infectious groove. Of course if you have Evin Jones, here the sole rhythmsection, you know you've got a groove going on.

The three soloists (Young, Green and Rivers) are from different worlds but here they play the blues. Four compositions by Young and one composition by Green. Green's Plaza de Toros is in my opinion the best composition on this record, and the organ-solo seems to go on forever, wich is great, because I cannot get enough of this song.

Although Green, Young and Rivers play very well and have outstanding solos the most prominent player here must be Elvin. His cymbal work is simply marvelous. The bell on this ride-cymbal is what makes this album so addictive.

I have no idea if this line-up is featured on any other record (I'll have to look into it), but this quartet is one-of-a-kind and to my recollection only Soulive (with Sam Kininger on saxophone) have done something similar.

Now I have the task to dig more deep into Young's discography and while at it, I can dig deeper into Green's discography aswell.