Unity (1965)

Young, soms wel 'de Charlie Parker van het orgel' genoemd, speelde later onder de naam Khalid Yasin. Hij was een van de eersten die het lukte om de invloed van Jimmy Smith in zijn spel tot een minimum te beperken. "Young began to display some of the angular drive that made him a natural for the jazz-rock explosion to come barely four years later. While about as far from the groove jazz of Jimmy Smith as you could get, Young hadn't made the complete leap into freeform jazz-rock either. Here he finds himself in very distinguished company: drummer Elvin Jones, trumpeter Woody Shaw, and saxman Joe Henderson. Young was clearly taken by the explorations of saxophonists Coleman and Coltrane, as well as the tonal expressionism put in place by Sonny Rollins and the hard-edged modal music of Miles Davis and his young quintet. But the sound here is all Young." (allmusic)

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