Wednesday, July 23, 2014

LARRY YOUNG – Of Love And Peace (Blue Note LP-1966)



Label: Blue Note – BLP 4242
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: US - Released:1966
Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Post Bop
Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 28, 1966.
Design [Cover], Photography By [Cover Photo] – Reid Miles
Liner Notes – A. B. Spellman
Producer – Alfred Lion
Recorded By [Recording By] – Rudy Van Gelder

A1 - Pavanne (Morton Gould) . . . 14:17
A2 - Of Love And Peace (Larry Young) . . . 6:30
B1 - Seven Steps To Heaven (Davis, Feldman) . . . 10:19
B2 - Falaq (Larry Young) . . . 10:03

Larry Young – organ
Eddie Gale – trumpet
James Spaulding – alto sax, flute
Herbert Morgan – tenor sax
Wilson Moorman III – drums
Jerry Thomas – drums


Larry Young: ''Of Love and Peace'' eight scant months after his classic ''Unity'' (Blue Note, '65), organist Larry Young was back in the studio with a larger ensemble and a bolder concept. The title Of Love and Peace may stand in direct contrast to the music within; there may be plenty of love, but on this cacophonous album of barely-controlled chaos, there's precious little peace.
Augmenting the front line of trumpeter Eddie Gale, alto saxophonist/flautist James Spaulding and tenor saxophonist Herbert Morgan, Young opts for a two-drummer approach, with Wilson Moorman III and Jerry Thomas behind their respective kits. Of these players only Spaulding will be well-known to most fans of the period, having appeared on countless albums by artists as diverse as Sam Rivers, Stanley Turrentine and Wayne Shorter. But Gale and Morgan, in particular, are players deserving of more due. Gale is a brash player who, while never recording with him, shared the stage with Coltrane a number of times, mixing a hard bop edge with more avant leanings. Morgan, with the exception of Unity , seems to be Young's tenor man of choice, appearing on all of Young's subsequent Blue Note outings and demonstrating a big tone that was perfectly in keeping with Young's more extroverted and increasingly unpredictable work.

With its duple ï rhythm, "Pavanne" is aptly titled, but it's a dance like none you are likely to hear, with Moorman and Thomas creating a scarcely-contained maelstrom behind the front line, which improvises with reckless abandon over Young's anchoring keyboard work. With Young living up to his reputation as the John Coltrane of his instrument, he provides an open-ended modal backdrop for solos which stretch the boundaries of the harmonic centre. The title track is only marginally more relaxed, with Young creating a simmering layer under which the two drummers create a certain forward motion in an ostensibly free improvisation. Likewise, the closing "Falaq" balances momentum and liberty equally, with Moorman and Thomas creating, interestingly enough, the kind of polyrhythmic independence that Elvin Jones was capable of doing all by himself. Still, Morgan contributes a solo that is reflective of the time and, in no small way, influenced by the outer leanings of Sam Rivers, while Gale is telepathically linked to Young, building screams and wails that are in sharp contrast to Young's richly ascendant chords.

The odd man out on the disc might on first glance seem to be the reading of "Seven Steps to Heaven," but the way the front line plays with the familiar theme, snaking in and out of it with exuberance and a greater sense of adventure, only sets things up for Young's solo, which runs at breakneck speed before Gale enters and matches Young's elusive behaviour note-for-note.

Of Love and Peace may be marginally less of a classic than Unity , if only for its more radical yielding to an almost stream-of-consciousness approach; but it demonstrates how far Young's conception had developed in a few short months and, consequently, is an important document of a rapidly evolving artist.

_ By JOHN KELMAN



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    1. LARRY YOUNG – Of Love And Peace (Blue Note LP-1966)
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  2. what a strange cover. Thanks, Vitko!

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  3. Wonderful to have found this Larry Young recording in your collection here -- many, many thanks!

    Any chance that we could see a lossless rip of "Love Cry Want" (New Jazz NJC 001), another one of those rare Young recordings (1972)?

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    1. Album "NICHOLAS and Gallivan with Larry Young - Love Cry Want" (1972); (rip MP3-320), can be found here:

      http://differentperspectivesinmyroom.blogspot.com/2013/07/nicholas-and-gallivan-with-larry-young.html

      ...and if you want lossless, you have to wait my new rip.
      Regards.

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  4. Thanks so very much . . . I'll look forward to your lossless rip.

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  5. Hi Vitko, could you please add new links love and peace please, i would really appreciate it, thanks

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  6. Thank you again for all your effort

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  7. Is there a recent link for this rip?

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