DUKE EDWARDS & THE YOUNG ONES – IS IT TOO LATE? ( 1968 ).TERRIFIC FREE JAZZ ALBUM WITH ONE WONDERFUL TRACK FUNK/SOUL,VERY RARE.Eddie “Poppa Duke” Edwards was a renowned recording artist who performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden. Born February 24, 1936, into a Creole family filled with generations of jazz musicians, he began his personal musical career in the US Coast Guard’s Drum and Bugle Corps. Following his tenor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, he traveled to Montreal, Canada, where joined jazz musician Sun Ra and his orchestra, studying composition and harmony. He released one LP as a solo artist, “Is It Too Late”, recorded in Montreal in the springtime of 1968...

 

Duke Edwards & The Young Ones (3) ‎– Is It Too Late?
Sello:
Prestige ‎– PR 7590, Prestige ‎– 7590, Prestige ‎– PRST 7590
Formato:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo

País:
US
Publicado:
1968
Género:
Jazz, Funk / Soul
Estilo:
Free Jazz, Gospel, Spoken Word, Soul


Lista de Títulos

A1 Is It Too Late? 13:45
A2 Black Elephant 9:40
Man (21:15)
B1a Don't Cry Baby
B1b Why?
B1c Reach For A Star


Compañías, etc.

Record Company – Prestige Records Inc.
Published By – Prestige Music (3)
Lacquer Cut At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Créditos

Drums – Clayton Johnston
Engineer [Recording] – Mike Ethier
Guitar – Wayne Prue
Lacquer Cut By – Van Gelder*
Organ – J. St. Julian Brown*
Producer – Cal Lampley
Tenor Saxophone – Doug Richardson (tracks: A2)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Bernard Moore (2)
Trombone – Richard Woodson
Vocals, Voice [Speaker], Percussion, Liner Notes – Duke Edwards

https://thelastgreatrecord.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/duke-edwards-and-the-young-ones-is-it-too-late/

Eddie “Poppa Duke” Edwards was a renowned recording artist who performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden. Born February 24, 1936, into a Creole family filled with generations of jazz musicians, he began his personal musical career in the US Coast Guard’s Drum and Bugle Corps. Following his tenor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, he traveled to Montreal, Canada, where joined jazz musician Sun Ra and his orchestra, studying composition and harmony. He released one LP as a solo artist, “Is It Too Late”, recorded in Montreal in the springtime of 1968, with his specially formed band “The Young Ones”, consisting of Clayton Johnston (drums), Bernard Moore (flute, saxophone), Wayne Prue (guitar), Julian Brown (organ), Doug Richardson (tenor saxophone) and Richard Woodson (trombone). He was introduced to booking agent, Rob Scribner and together, they formed Music Canada, where he created, produced wrote music, groomed, managed and worked with some of the finest musical talent in Toronto, Canada. In 1972, Eddie retired from the music industry and created a traveling communal group called the “Mud People”, which was made up of university professors, an attorney, and a doctor. They travelled to the banks of the Mississippi River in the parish of St. John in the town of Wallace, LA, to work in the community with the objective to create better race relations between people of all races while teaching universal brotherhood and New Orleans Jazz. Aged 80, he died on Sunday, March 20, 2016 at his home in New Orleans, LA.

You’d be doing well to find a copy of the original LP (out-of-print), but a 10 minute version of the title track can be sourced on Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power – Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79 (Soul Jazz Records).

https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/7956779-Jeff-St-Julian-Brown

Jeff St. Julian Brown (aka Jeff "Soulman" Brown or Julian Brown) was born in Philadelphia, PA on June 14, 1940. Brown started a band, The Challengers, with his cousin Larry Young Jr., before joining the Birdlanders. He left The Birdlanders and played with various R&B groups and acts including Shep & The Limelights, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Young Philadelphians, Solomon Burke, and Rufus Thomas. In 1961, he joined the Earl Lett quartet who visited Montreal in 1962. Brown decided to stay in Montreal and form his own group - The Jeff Brown Quartet. This group would become the house band at The Esquire Show Bar and released one single on the Dinosaur record label. At the insistence of Duke Edwards, Sun Ra's percussionist, Brown put together The Young Ones.

monohub

 25 de enero de 2008

Percussionist Duke Edwards, once of one of Sun Ra's many Arkestras, formed The Young Ones in the late '60s. They recorded three albums worth of material, but Prestige only put out this one release, which is a shame as it's a really unique and quite challenging listen. There's a few styles going on on here, but the best way to describe this album is as being totally righteous. Duke Edwards was obviously very troubled about the state of the world back then and needed to excersise that frustration through the medium of music. One track is an exception to this, "Black Elephant", this is just a total free form-jazz workout with endless guitar soloing going on - the real weak point of the album for me. However, the other two tracks are much more interesting. The main feel sways between folky jazz and deep spiritual bluesy soul. On top of that you have Duke Edwards speaking at you, ranting at you, screeching at you, even preaching at you, and with so much passion that you sense this guy certainly was feeling the pain of what he was talking about. There are moments when he's so insistent, tortured and really wrapped up in the message he's imparting, that I swear he's actually crying. This is a really unique and amazing one-off album, just be careful if you're too empathetic, it might hurt.