Larry Young

I couldn't find a thread devoted to Larry Young in general So Thought I'd start one with his appearance here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEaBj01kcE

I got a 2cd set of the Fuel material about 10 years ago after not being able to find it easily beforehand.
NOt sure what else I need or what live stuff there is circulating. Think I did get a live Fuel from Dime too.

Am I right in thinking there is very little footage of him around. I think there is a Montreux set by the next lineup of lIfetime after Mclaughlin and Bruce had left.

I have Unity, Lawrence of Newark and I think one set from the late 80s. lus the 2 Lifetime sets. & possibly the polydor vinyl best of thing that introduced me to the band. I remember reading Tom Verlaine saying that Lifetime were a band he went and saw every time he got a chance when he had first arrived in NYC.

Just watched most of this and not sure why I hadn't been as knocked out by it before.
An all-black line up of Lifetime, similar to the 9one on Ego tho9ugh bassist is Juinie Booth not Ronh Carter
video footage could be better and somebody actually mentions having better quality but sound is really good.
Concentrates on percussionists more than Young though but you hear him ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_4vi09Tfgg

I like some of his Blue Note albums but not all — Into Somethin' and Mother Ship are my favorites. He's also great on the John McLaughlin/Carlos Santana album Love Devotion Surrender, and if you can find the Jimi Hendrix album Nine To The Universe there's some great stuff from a one-off jam with Hendrix, Young, and Buddy Miles.

Good on his life and work, centered around this, which I still haven't heard:

The producer Zev Feldman, of Resonance Records, visiting France’s national audiovisual archives (known as the INA), struck gold, and the treasures he found are now available in a two-CD set, “Larry Young in Paris: The ORTF Recordings,” which offers the double exaltation of sheer serendipity and musical revelation.

And as I said on my Top 50 thread:

Several versions of Devotion, with some CDs missing a track, others w the original sequence bassackwards; here it is as on 1970 LP, with different cover art (McLaughlin wrote that Jack Douglas mixed it badly, and some say he didn't like Douglas editing the jamz, but it was a critical success, and everybody I know who's heard it loves it---it still sounds pretty raw in space for a McL LP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjtqpEQZko

I thought I heard a story about the original tapes getting damaged and Douglas prototyping techniques he notoriously used on Hendrix lps during production.

Have had the set on vinyl with the original sleeve and cd with a different one.

I found a 3 part Deep Focus session on Larry Young by William Hooker, originally broadcast in 2014 and podcasted in 2021
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kPrrUatelnhYtqSctfb32?si=4347ee28deae4bf6
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TisgTR1SmMqJ18XpJreYd?si=31f9815be56b4e21
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BI2r8YLkxlCil98oUDEuh?si=449c20f9557840bd

and rediscovered his input into the love, Devotion, Surrender lp by Santana/Mclaughlin this week. Very integral to the electric parts of the lp at least. H9im snaking everywhere. yum yum.

Finding it difficult to search engine the episode there I think partially because the podcast thing dates back to 2 1/2 years ago .
Looks at a few different performances including part of the Montreux 71 Lifetime set that there is some video footage of above. Sounds interesting without the video . Haven't seen if they listen to any of the solo non-lifetime gig from the same festival which did have some of the same sidemen on. Have only listened to the first of the 3 podcast episodes that the single radio broadcast was split into.

Very good podcast I think. Stumbled across it a fw months ago when I was looking up Loft Jazz and specific players involved in that scene.

I just bought a copy of Wildflowers the box set tied in with that scene so looking forward to receiving and listening through it

Unity and Lawrence of Newark are the ones I have, both excellent in very different ways. The latter has a ruminative spirituality that approaches Indian classical music at times and there are moments where his organ is utterly sublime. It's not sustained through the entire LP but the high points are as good as it gets, this guy def deserves a thread.

another bit of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvJLb56cy4

I got a copy of Unity, which I didn't really know. It's so good. Elvin Jones just kills it on Monk's Dream.