Mother Ship
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Mother Ship is an album by American organist Larry Young recorded in 1969 but not released on the Blue Note
label until 1980.
awarded the album 4 stars and stated "This highly original set does not deserve to be so obscure".
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
label until 1980.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott YanowScott 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 "This highly original set does not deserve to be so obscure".
Track listing
- All compositions by Larry Young
- "Mother Ship" - 7:38
- "Street Scene" - 6:56
- "Visions" - 6:44
- "Trip Merchant" - 12:53
- "Love Drops" - 7:06
- Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on February 7, 1969
Personnel
- Larry Young - organElectronic organAn 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....
- Lee MorganLee MorganEdward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...
- trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air... - Herbert Mogan - tenor saxophoneTenor saxophoneThe 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...
- Eddie GladdenEddie GladdenEddie Gladden was an American jazz drummer.Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark...
- drumsDrum kitA 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 ....