Williams, Tony – Life Time

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New Vinyl Record – Anthony (Tony) Williams- Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

The precocious and prodigious drummer and composerTony Williamshad already joined theMiles Davis Quintetand participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings includingHerbie HancockEmpyrean Isles,Eric DolphyOut To Lunch,Andrew HillPoint Of Departure,Jackie McLeanOne Step Beyond, andGrachan Moncur IIIEvolutionby the time he recorded his own adventurous debut albumLife Timein 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 2 Pieces of One with the drummer joined by tenor saxophonistSam Riversand bassistsGary PeacockandRichard Davis. Side 2 opens with the jaunty Tomorrow Afternoon featuringWilliams, Rivers, and Peacock. Williams plays a variety of percussion on the freely improvised Memory which featuresHerbie Hancockon piano andBobby Hutchersonon vibraphone, and lays out entirely on the ruminative piano-bass duet Barbs Song to the Wizard performed by Hancock andRon Carterwhich closes the album.

A1: Two Pieces Of One: Red
A2: Two Pieces Of One: Green

B1: Tomorrow Afternoon
B2: Memory
B3: Barb’s Song To The Wizard