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The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already joined the Miles Davis Quintet and participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles, Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch, Andrew Hill Point Of Departure, Jackie McLean One Step Beyond, and Grachan Moncur III Evolution by the time he recorded his own adventurous debut album Life Time in August 1964, when he was still just 18 years old. Williams had no intention of playing it safe on his maiden voyage as a leader and set forth to document his uncompromising expression on this program of innovative original compositions. Side 1 presents the expansive two movement suite Inch2 Pieces of OneInch with the drummer joined by tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers and bassists Gary Peacock and Richard Davis. Side 2 opens with the jaunty InchTomorrow AfternoonInch featuring Williams, Rivers, and Peacock. Williams plays a variety of percussion on the freely improvised InchMemoryInch which features Herbie Hancock on piano and Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, and lays out entirely on the ruminative piano-bass duet InchBarb's Song to the WizardInch performed by Hancock and Ron Carter which closes the album. Album Tracks 1. Two Pieces of One Red 2. Two Pieces of One Green 1. Tomorrow Afternoon 2. Memory 3. Barb's Song to the Wizard
