Larry Young

[Guest]

My favorite larry young albums are fuel and spaceball. What other artists decided to go crazy with the keyboards? AMG similar artist links aren't really doing it for me.

[Guest akanalog]

shalom.

les mccann i guess-with layers and invitation to openess.

sun ra-of course with various albums. based on you liking these lyoung albums perhaps lanquidity would please your passion.

charles earland-the dynamite brothers soundtrack might be ok for you. moving out from organ to other keyboards on this one.

mal waldron-check his work with german krautrock band embryo or not on CD yet but a personal favorite, his LP the call

joe henderson-obviously he is playing sax, but on some of his 70s albums (black narcissus, black is the color, multiple) he went with keyboards he otherwise didn't utilize in the rest of his career

larry willis-that recent reissue on groove merchant which for some reason i forgot the name of right now oh i remember-inner crisis-is pretty good. only e-piano, but besides on joe henderson's multiple i dont know of any other jazz albums he has been on with keyboards.

marion brown-vista which again, isn't so out there but for his discography definitely the only thing i can think of available on CD with keyboards and players playing them who generally did not. brown is obviously on sax, but players like stan cowell are on keys.

shelly manne-mannekind-uses some electronics and keys and you would be hard pressed to find anything else available in his discography which uses keys like this. manne is on drums.

[Guest akanalog]

i dont know why answering this was so hard. i guess a lot of people use em or dont use em but not so many albums around where someone suddenly stars playing em.

oh yeah-paul bley-that new reissue improvisie and the less recent reissue circles both have bley experimenting with moogs and rmi keys and stuff but i personally find his keyboard tones thin and wheezy.

[mikeweil]

larry willis-that recent reissue on groove merchant which for some reason i forgot the name of right now oh i remember-inner crisis-is pretty good.  only e-piano, but besides on joe henderson's multiple i dont know of any other jazz albums he has been on with keyboards.

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He was with Blood, Sweat & Tears for most of the 1970's and didn't have much time for sideman dates.

I love these albums you mentioned, too.

Edited September 15, 2005 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

Geoff Keezer is a crazy keyboard player of the younger generation - at least that's what Christian McBride calls him. There is a Charnett Moffett disc with Keezer and Victor Lewis that displays it pretty well, and there was a download of a concert at GMN with an electric set that's very good.

[Guest akanalog]

claude, have you done something to offend the other board members?

the lack of responses is shocking.

oh another one-

i guess on amazonas, cal tjader used a lot more keys than anywhere else.

[Guest]

haha, i have! i said i supported file sharing

[jazzbo]

I think one reason there is little response is that those lps are not readily avialable for listening so there are fewer to comment with experience.

I've heard them. Must say they are my least favorite Larry Youngs!

As far as going crazy with electronic keyboards. . . . Ra and Jarrett are the ones I think of as being most "crazy" when they were deep into the electronic thang!

[Noj]

I've got both those Larry Young albums on reissued vinyl, and have to agree with Lon that they are my least favorite Young albums I've heard so far.

If you dig electric piano and don't mind R&B covers, Ramsey Lewis' "Upendo Ni Pamoja" and "Funky Serenity" are fairly funky.

[mikeweil]

oh another one-

i guess on amazonas, cal tjader used a lot more keys than anywhere else.

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If you count the mallet instrument bars .... vibes and marimba, played by Tjader, and acoustic piano, electric piano, clavinet and synth handled by Egberto Gismonti and George Duke (as "Dawili Gonga"). But all in a conventional manner. I really love this album, almost wore it out, but it's not earth shaking as far as adventurous keyboards are concerned.

[JSngry]

Yeah, I've heard both (and have one), and don't really care for them at all.

[Guest]

i found one myself, deodato - love island fits the idea perfectly

[Noj]

I've got this compilation called "Sophistifunk" on Irma Jazz records. It has a track called "Mr. McFreeze" by George Duke. Might be just the thing you're looking for, if you can find the album. 1976.

[mikeweil]

Talking 'bout George Duke - those MPS albums he did in the 1970's have some mean keyboards on them - especiall the first one, Faces in Reflection, which never was on CD, to my knowledge. He does a live solo on it with Wurlitzer electric and Moog including several effects pedals that's really great!

[jazzbo]

Then there's all that great "Dukey Stick" stuff!

[Guest akanalog]

george duke on keyboards in the early 70s is the best!

i wish mps was not racist and overly patriotic and would release some albums made by black americans during the 70s-especially the duke albums. faces in reflection is great, but he had a whole run of like three or four albums which are all tight. zappa sits in on one or two of them. but george duke was the best.

also mike, i thought this question was sort of-on which album does a spexific musician gets craziest with the keyboards-and for tjader i would say amazonas. it does have george duke for gods sake. the one thing which ruins that album for me is dave amaro-wish he wasn't there. he also ruins some airto albums for me. totally superfluous.

[mikeweil]

also mike, i thought this question was sort of-on which album does a spexific musician gets craziest with the keyboards-and for tjader i would say amazonas.  it does have george duke for gods sake.

Well, Guarabe where Clare Fischer overdubs several layers of Rhodes for orchestral effect on the first track, is nice, too, but not crazy ....

[JSngry]

If it's crazyass keyboards you're after, look no further than

I slept on the Syndicate for years, mainly because the first few albums after the breakup of WR were guitar-heavy fusionintheworstway duds or near-duds. But whatever happened in the years since was a damn good thing, because THIS bad boy is GREAT.

Zawinul is nuts. He's GOTTA be nuts. Thank God!