John Merritt Young (March 16, 1922 – April 16, 2008) was an American jazz pianist. Young played with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dexter Gordon, and many others.[1] He recorded with his own trio in the 1950s and 1960s, and was a sideman for Von Freeman, Gene Ammons and others. He remained active in the Chicago jazz scene until a few years before his death.
Young was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and his family relocated to Chicago when he was a toddler.[2] He first toured in the 1940s with the big band Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy. After Young left Kirk's band and returned to Chicago, he performed with the Dick Davis combo until 1950, when he formed his own combo with Eldridge Freeman on drums and Leroy Jackson on bass.[3] In 1957, he signed with Argo Records and recorded his first LP, Opus de Funk.
Dan Morgenstern, in Living with Jazz, called Young "one of Chicago's several unsung piano originals".[4] Allmusic.com called Young "criminally underappreciated outside of [the Chicago bop scene]".[2]
^ abcde"John Young Discography". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
^Ankeny, Jason. "A Touch of Pepper: John Young". AllMusic. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
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