Contrasts is an album by American organist Larry Young recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

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 label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The adventurous music is sometimes quite intense but also grooves in its own eccentric way, offering listeners a very fresh sound on organ".

Track listing

All compositions by Larry Young except as indicated

1. "Majestic Soul" - 11:55
2. "Evening" - 7:10
3. "Major Affair" - 3:50
4. "Tender Feelings" (Tyrone Washington) - 6:48
5. "Means Happiness" - 4:43
6. "Wild Is the Wind
   Wild Is the Wind (song)
   "Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington. The track was originally recorded by Johnny Mathis for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind...
   
   " (Dimitri Tiomkin
   Dimitri Tiomkin
   Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
   
   , Ned Washington
   Ned Washington
   Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
   
   ) - 4:28
   • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 18, 1967

Personnel

• Larry Young - organ
  Electronic organ
  An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....
  
  
• Hank White - flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
   (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)
• Herbert Morgan, Tyrone Washington - tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)
• Eddie Wright - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (tracks 1 & 6)
• Eddie Gladden
  Eddie Gladden
  Eddie Gladden was an American jazz drummer.Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Stacey Edwards - conga
  Conga
  The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...
  
   (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6)
• Althea Young - vocals (track 6)