Larry Young – Unity
153,00 lei
Label: Blue Note – 4579754, UMe – 4579754, Blue Note – 84221, Blue Note – ST-84221, Blue Note – BST 84221, UMe – 00602445797547
Series: Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180 g
Released: 19 Aug 2022
Genre: Jazz
Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Post Bop
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Unity is an album by jazz organist Larry Young, released on the Blue Note label in August, 1966. The album features trumpeter Woody Shaw, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and drummer Elvin Jones. While not free jazz, the album features experimentation that was innovative for the time. Young chose the title because, “although everybody on the date was very much an individualist, they were all in the same frame of mood. It was evident from the start that everything was fitting together.
The album was Young’s second for Blue Note, and is widely considered a “post-bop” classic.
Three of the six tracks were composed by Woody Shaw. The first, “Zoltan”, starts with part of a march from the Háry János suite of Zoltán Kodály and continues in the Lydian mode. The second, “The Moontrane”, is dedicated to John Coltrane, “as can be heard in the harmonic cycles in it”, explained Shaw.[5] The third, “Beyond All Limits”, has a difficult harmonic progression, but, in Shaw’s words, “once the inherent difficulties of the tune are solved, there are no limits as to where you can go with it”.[5] “If” is a 12-bar Joe Henderson composition; “Monk’s Dream” (played only by Young and drummer Elvin Jones) is by Thelonious Monk; and “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise” is a Hammerstein & Romberg composition.[5]
Elvin Jones played “a standard 4-piece drum kit with two cymbals and hi-hat”.
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