Real name: John Merritt Young

John Young (born March 16, 1922, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA - died April 16, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA) was an American jazz pianist.

A longtime fixture of the Chicago bop scene, pianist John Young collaborated with jazz giants ranging from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald to Dexter Gordon during a career spanning more than six decades. Young continued performing until severe sciatic nerve inflammation forced him to retire in 2005.