Customer Reviews
Warm Sounds, Cool Sounds - By: Mr. I. Stephen, 19 Jun 2008 
I agree with the other reviewer here - Young was pretty uniquein that his approach to the electric organ came from a purer jazz camp, as opposed to the earthier r'n b roots of someone like Jimmy McGriff. I'd recommend this album both to those who, like myself are coming backwards to him after years of listening to him on the Tony Williams Lifetime albums & to headnodders who dig their early to mid '60's jazz & like it tight but cool. There's a fabulous warmth to Young's organ sound on this album, & that integrates perfectly with the ensemble playing throughout. Nicely remastered, nicely priced - check it out !
One of the Great Blue Notes - By: Eclectic Music Fan, 25 Aug 2007 This is surely one of the very greatest Blue Note albums & also one of the most over looked. Recorded at the end of 1965 it features Larry Young on Hammond organ, Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor & Elvin Jones on drums.
On this album Larry Young really moved the organ forward as a Jazz instrument. As much as anyone recordingin this period he understood & assimilated the ideas which John Coltrane was pursuing. Young & Coltrane also play their instrumentsin the same way: with power, emotion & freedom.
Henderson, who writes one tune, & Shaw, who writes three, are both excellent, the tenor manin particular, & add to the power of the album. Elvin Jones plays just as well as he'd been doing for the previous 5 yearsin Coltrane's band.
I don't think that the great recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder ever captured any instrument's sound as well as the swirling attack of the organ: sometimes pointed & precise, at other times there's a warmth which seems to envelope you.
This reissue is part of the Van Gelder Editions which means that the great man has done the excellent remastering & there are new liner notes.
If you enjoy this, as you can't fail to do, I'd also recommended Young's appearances,in a more conventional format, on two Blue Notes by guitarist Grant Green: `Talkin' About' & `Street of Dreams`.
