Larry Young - Lawrence Of Newark (1973) {Castle Music}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Funk
The late Larry
Young was an organist whose fairly brief career had lots of highs and
very few middles or lows. Take this session from 1973 -- his first
non-Blue Note date as a leader and post-Lifetime -- as a for instance.
It is startling for its fresh look at how the organ is used in jazz and
in improvisation, period. On Lawrence of Newark, Young enlisted a host
of younger New York session cats who were hanging around the fringes of
the funk and avant-garde scenes -- James Blood Ulmer, trumpeter Charles
MacGee, Cedric Lawson, and about a dozen others all jumped into Young's
dark and freaky musical stew.
Made up of only
five tracks, rhythm is the hallmark of the date as evidenced by the
conga and contrabass intro to "Sunshine Fly Away." Deirdre Johnson's
cello opens up a droning modal line for Young to slide his organ over in
what passes for a melody but is more of an idea for a theme and a trio
of variations. Armen Halburian's congas echo the accents at the end of
the drum kit and Young's own tapering pronouncements moving back and
forth between two and four chords with a host of improvisers inducing a
transcendent harmonic hypnosis. The centerpiece of the album is "Khalid
of Space Pt. 2: Welcome." Sun Ra's edict about all of his musicians
being percussionists holds almost literally true in Young's case. The
soprano saxophonist sounds as if it could be Sonny Fortune (billed as
"mystery guest"), but he's way out on an Eastern modal limb. Young's
right hand is punching home the counterpoint rhythm as Abdul Shadi runs
all over his kit. Blood Ulmer is accenting the end of each line with
overdriven power chords, and various bells, drums, congas, and djembes
enter and depart the mix mysteriously. Young is digging deep into the
minor and open drone chords, signaling -- à la Miles -- changes in
intonation, tempo, and frequency of rhythmic attack. And the cut never
loses its pocket funk for all that improvisation. It's steamy, dark,
brooding, and saturated with groove. The CD reissue has fine sound and
sells for a budget price; it should not be overlooked. The DJs just
haven't discovered this one yet. Awesome. |
Personnel:
Bongos, Organ, Vocals: Larry Young
Drums: Abdul Shahid, Howard T. King, James Flores
Percussion: Jumma Santos (Jim Riley), Armen Halburian, Poppy La Boy
Congas: Stacy Edwards, Umar Abdul Muizz
Bass: Don Pate, Art "Joony" Booth
Guitar: James Blood Ulmer
Cello: Diedre Johnson
Drums, Piano: Art Gore
Bongos: Abdul Hakim
Electric Piano: Cedric Lawson
Saxophone, Vocals: Pharoah Sanders
Saxophone: Dennis Mourouse
Electric Trumpet: Charles Magee
tracklist:
01. Sunshine Fly Away 08:37
02. Khalid Of Space. Part Two, Welcome 12:25
03. Saudia 04:27
04. Alive 01:50
05. Hello Your Quietness (Islands) 10:05
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