Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! - VINYL LP
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Miles Davis 'I could definitely hear right away that this was going to be one of the baddest motherfuckers who had ever played a set of drums.Inch The Tony Williams Lifetime's Emergency! Is a furious, stunning, seminal album. In 1969, it's explosive sound divided critics in both jazz and rock but is now rightly regarded as groundbreaking. A musical statement so bold and irreverent that it was revolutionary, it's one of the most important records you will ever hear. With Emergency!, provocative percussionist Tony Williams unified the most vital sounds of the era and galvanised the creation of jazz fusion. A sprawling double LP that shattered the boundaries between jazz and rock, it forged fresh frontiers by unleashing dense, courageous and fantastically mysterious music. The group was founded by Tony Williams, a member of Miles Davis' radical 1960s quintet, out of his desire to fuse the influences of modern jazz and rock music. To effectively meld the scorching bop of Coltrane with the raging rock of Hendrix, in the process crafting, as Mojo put it, 'jazz-rock's equivalent of Are You Experienced?'. The album's urgent title was profoundly significant for Williams InchIt was an emergency for me to leave Miles and put that band together (...) and I wanted to play an emerging music that was my own.' The band he formed was one hell of a power trio, comprising nothing but raw virtuosity Williams's colossal drumming, John McLaughlin's pioneering, aggressive guitar playing and Larry Young's freeform organ work. The album's sound is incredibly fierce and inordinately intense. Indeed, the group were famed for playing Inchlouder than rock'n'rollInch, as Herbie Hancock said of going to hear them live in 1969 'This is something new... It was exciting and very arresting. It snatched you. It yanked you out of your seat.Inch Ian Carr, of Nucleus, was equally impressed
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- GenreJazzDescriptionMiles Davis 'I could definitely hear right away that this was going to be one of the baddest motherfuckers who had ever played a set of drums.Inch The Tony Williams Lifetime's Emergency! Is a furious, stunning, seminal album. In 1969, it's explosive sound divided critics in both jazz and rock but is now rightly regarded as groundbreaking. A musical statement so bold and irreverent that it was revolutionary, it's one of the most important records you will ever hear. With Emergency!, provocative percussionist Tony Williams unified the most vital sounds of the era and galvanised the creation of jazz fusion. A sprawling double LP that shattered the boundaries between jazz and rock, it forged fresh frontiers by unleashing dense, courageous and fantastically mysterious music. The group was founded by Tony Williams, a member of Miles Davis' radical 1960s quintet, out of his desire to fuse the influences of modern jazz and rock music. To effectively meld the scorching bop of Coltrane with the raging rock of Hendrix, in the process crafting, as Mojo put it, 'jazz-rock's equivalent of Are You Experienced?'. The album's urgent title was profoundly significant for Williams InchIt was an emergency for me to leave Miles and put that band together (...) and I wanted to play an emerging music that was my own.' The band he formed was one hell of a power trio, comprising nothing but raw virtuosity Williams's colossal drumming, John McLaughlin's pioneering, aggressive guitar playing and Larry Young's freeform organ work. The album's sound is incredibly fierce and inordinately intense. Indeed, the group were famed for playing Inchlouder than rock'n'rollInch, as Herbie Hancock said of going to hear them live in 1969 'This is something new... It was exciting and very arresting. It snatched you. It yanked you out of your seat.Inch Ian Carr, of Nucleus, was equally impressedArtistTony Williams LifetimeTitleEmergency!FormatVINYLLabelBe with Records
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Miles Davis 'I could definitely hear right away that this was going to be one of the baddest motherfuckers who had ever played a set of drums.Inch The Tony Williams Lifetime's Emergency! Is a furious, stunning, seminal album. In 1969, it's explosive sound divided critics in both jazz and rock but is now rightly regarded as groundbreaking. A musical statement so bold and irreverent that it was revolutionary, it's one of the most important records you will ever hear. With Emergency!, provocative percussionist Tony Williams unified the most vital sounds of the era and galvanised the creation of jazz fusion. A sprawling double LP that shattered the boundaries between jazz and rock, it forged fresh frontiers by unleashing dense, courageous and fantastically mysterious music. The group was founded by Tony Williams, a member of Miles Davis' radical 1960s quintet, out of his desire to fuse the influences of modern jazz and rock music. To effectively meld the scorching bop of Coltrane with the raging rock of Hendrix, in the process crafting, as Mojo put it, 'jazz-rock's equivalent of Are You Experienced?'. The album's urgent title was profoundly significant for Williams InchIt was an emergency for me to leave Miles and put that band together (...) and I wanted to play an emerging music that was my own.' The band he formed was one hell of a power trio, comprising nothing but raw virtuosity Williams's colossal drumming, John McLaughlin's pioneering, aggressive guitar playing and Larry Young's freeform organ work. The album's sound is incredibly fierce and inordinately intense. Indeed, the group were famed for playing Inchlouder than rock'n'rollInch, as Herbie Hancock said of going to hear them live in 1969 'This is something new... It was exciting and very arresting. It snatched you. It yanked you out of your seat.Inch Ian Carr, of Nucleus, was equally impressed
Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. In what many consider to be the birth of jazz fusion, Emergency!, led by Tony Williams (drums) with bandmates John McLaughlin (guitar) and Larry Young (organ), is a true adventure in the beginning of the jazz-rock blend that would take shape in late 1960's and beyond. From the opening title track, the direction is decisive and commands attention as Williams leads his crew through a mixture of swing, rock and free jazz that cements it's place as one of the most influential albums of the time. The Verve By Request Series 2 LP set features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit. Album Tracks 1. Emergency 2. Beyond Games 1. Where 2. Vashkar 1. Via de Spectrum Road 2. Spectrum 1. Sangria for Three 2. Something Spiritual
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Drummer Tony Williams was a frequent Blue Note presence in the 1960s and returned to the tag in 1985 eager to form a new acoustic band as a vehicle to perform his compositions. 1986's masterful , Civilization, featured his great '80s quintet with trumpeter Wallace Roney, saxophonist Billy Pierce, pianist Mulgrew Miller, and bassist Charnett Moffett. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes. Album Tracks 1. Geo Rose 2. Warrior 3. Ancient Eyes 4. Soweto Nights 5. The Slump 6. Civilization 7. Mutants on the Beach 8. Citadel
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
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