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Backgrounder: Larry Young - 'Into Somethin',' 1964

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Marc Myers
May 03, 2024
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Larry Young was unlike any organist who preceded him. Rather than channel music of the Black church, he was more influenced by R&B and John Coltrane's tenor saxophone and chord changes on original pieces. One of Young's best middle-period albums—between his early soul-jazz recordings and his modal, avant-garde LPs—is Into Somethin', his first leadership…

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