Unity
Larry Young
Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Elvin Jones
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Blue Note Records (USA), 1999
1 CD
Catalogue #: 97808
EAN: 0724349780828
UPC: 724349780828
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The Rudy Van Gelder Edition of UNITY includes an essay by Bob Blumenthal.
Personnel: Larry Young (Hammond B-3 organ); Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Woody Shaw (trumpet); Elvin Jones (drums).
Producer: Alfred Lion.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 10, 1965. Originally released on Blue Note (4221). Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff and Bob Blumenthal.
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Rudy Van Gelder (Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey).
This is part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder Editions series.
Tracklist
Joe Henderson
A remarkable tenor player and improviser for the last three decades, Joe Henderson's career began in the '60s on Blue Note. He played a prominent role in seminal records by the diverse likes of Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, and Larry Young, reflecting a talent that encompassed not only bebop tradition but avant garde and Latin influences as well. The breadth of his tone and his constant invention were finally recognized on a broad scale with the Verve label's support in the '90s.
Woody Shaw
Trumpeter Woody Shaw should have been among the best known jazz trumpeters of his era, but his personal problems and early death ended his career tragically early. Nevertheless, he's hailed as a trumpeter's trumpeter, and was a crucial link between hard bop and progressive jazz. Heavily influenced by Clifford Brown, Shaw played with a host of giants early on (McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, and others). In the 1970s and '80s, Shaw's work as a bandleader found him shifting seamlessly between post-bop workouts and harmonically adventurous excursions. In 1989, Shaw fell under a New York City subway train, and died three months later, cutting short what should have been a long, fruitful musical life.
Elvin Jones
Many consider drummer Elvin Jones's contribution to the classic John Coltrane quartet of the 1960s nearly equal to that of the master. Jones's rolling polyrhythms balanced urgency and serenity to create a dynamic sense of texture and time, providing steady counterpoint to Coltrane's sonic explorations. Subsequently, Jones went on to collaborate with many distinguished peers and to pursue a long, fruitful solo career with his Jazz Machine. One of the key influences on jazz drumming in both bebop and post-bop, Jones continued playing, even in ill health, until his death in 2004 at the age of 76.
