Tony Williams' Lifetime - Life Time
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Artist: Tony Williams' LifetimeEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Two Pieces of One: Red
- Two Pieces of One: Green
- Tomorrow Afternoon
- Memory
- Barb's Dong to the Wizard
Free Music Notes for Life Time
Free Music Review: Tony Williams plays hide and seek.
Hit: 3 Stars
Vaguely aware of Tony Williams' work as a supporting band member on a number of legendary jazz recordings, Out to Lunch notable among them, I one day heard the simply awesome "Warrior" (available on Mosaic Select: Tony Williams) on my satellite radio, and I decided I had to get some more of Williams' work. This recording is part of the core collection of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings), so I decided to start here. Unfortunately, Tony's work doesn't nearly begin to shine, and I have to say, my expectations simply were not met on this CD. For one thing, a number of the tracks do not have the steady, sizzling rhythm that Williams is famous for, substituting instead a sort of tricky, flicky percussive banging and whipping of whatever drum apparatus was around. Some of the tracks go for several minutes without drums, or any other kind of percussion. (I would love to be such a great musician that I could produce a CD and not even play on one-third of it.) Most of these tracks just wander around anyway, and I didn't find them very stimulating. The Rudy Van Gelder remaster of the original Blue Note recording is as professional and clean as ever, so at least the sound is good. And the supporting musicians are a who's who of jazz greats: Sam Rivers, Herbie Hancock, Gary Peacock, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis, Ron Carter. Seriously, this is great stuff, but I just didn't think enough of the songs to rate this any higher than three stars. I have to leave it at that.
Life Time Poster
Tony Williams was just 18 years old when he recorded this, his 1964 debut as a leader, but he was already a prodigious drummer who could maintain a rapid-fire flow of subtle accents that prodded a soloist into fresh directions. His effect on a band was electric, and he had rapidly moved to the front ranks of jazz musicians, working with Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy, and Miles Davis. More than a fine drummer, Williams was a musical visionary, and with Life Time he recorded one of the most forward-looking of the Blue Note albums of the '60s. It shows in the choice of radical sidemen like Sam Rivers, the explosive tenor saxophonist who had been Williams's early mentor in Boston, and bassist Gary Peacock, then a regular associate of Albert Ayler, as well as the more innovative members of the Blue Note stable, like Herbie Hancock and Bobby Hutcherson. It also shows in Williams's liberating approach to instrumentation, using two basses on some tracks and none on another, and even omitting his own drums from the flamenco-tinged "Barb's Song to the Wizard." The trio of Williams, Rivers, and Peacock create a masterpiece on "Tomorrow Afternoon," with its heady mix of calm and passion, but every track is well-crafted, challenging music. --Stuart BroomerJazz Music CDs
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