Backgrounder: Larry Young - Into Somethin', 1964

Larry Young was unlike any organist who preceded him. Rather than channel 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 work for Blue Note. If you listen carefully to Young's organ, you'll hear the Coltrane influence and how modern it sounds for 1964, when it was recorded.

Prior to Into Somethin', Young was prominent on multiple albums for Blue Note led by guitarist Grant Green. On Into Somethin' he was joined by Sam Rivers (ts), Green (g) and Elvin Jones (d), which proved to be a fascinating quartet. You have the gutsy sound of Rivers's tenor, the swinging plucking of Green's guitar and the restlessness drums of Jones.

Here's Larry Young's Into Somethin' without ad interruptions...