gypsy tail windLarry Young was only 23 and 24 years old when these recordings were made. He would soon be known as one of the great organ players of his time, and indeed, all time. The son of a professional organist, he played piano and organ from early childhood. Indeed, his first serious piano teacher, after his father, had been a student of Bartók and Dohnanyi at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. The influence of this teacher, Olga Von Till, might explain Young’s penchant for harmonic structures based on fourths and his use of pentatonic scales – both characteristic of the strains of Hungarian folk music found in the music of Bartok, Dohnanyi and their compatriot, Kodaly; structures that were unusual in jazz at the time.
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