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Forms
How did Free Jazz
move to jazz rock then jazz fusion? In 1969, Tony Williams wanted to remove
the barrier separating jazz and rock. He formed The Tony Williams Lifetime.
It was painfully loud when it started but by the '90s we had to bear with
Kenny G's brand of jazz fusion.
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The
Tony Williams Lifetime
New
York 1969 [no label, 1CD]
Broadcast November 1969 in New York.
Jazz
rock came out of Miles Davis' small-group experiments when he recorded
with electric instruments on his classic albums starting with Miles In
The Sky in 1968. On hand to witness this were youngsters Tony Williams
and John McLaughlin.
Concurrently,
John Coltrane was showing the way to exaggerated jazz apocalypse with
extreme noise, Indian music influences and his cosmic consciousness that
may or may not have been helped along with chemicals. Coltrane pioneered
all this within a small quartet.
So
when Cream heralded the power trio format in mid-1966, they made even
louder sounds within an even more compact group. Cream also had a jazz
connection in drummer Ginger Baker. In hindsight, competition had set
in with the older jazz hipsters on one side and the "ruffian" new rock
elite on the other.
When
Tony Williams left Miles Davis' group in 1969, after the recording of
In A Silent Way, he formed The Tony Williams Lifetime, a jazz trio that
was untypical of jazz trios. It had a drummer, an electric guitarist and
a Hammond organist. It was probably the first electric jazz trio.
This
recording, done for a radio station in New York, was the label's effort
to promote the trio's first album, Emergency!, a double LP. It starts
off with two tracks thought to be played live. The first, To Whom It May
Concern, later turned up on the group's second LP, Turn It Over. The other
track, Emergency, has the blueprint of what would later be John McLaughlin's
Mahavishnu Orchestra sound - stinging and winding guitar solos that ascend
as high as possible for a big sound.
The
other three tracks are reportedly studio recordings requested by the radio
station to pad the show's time slot. They were all recorded especially
for the show. A Famous Blues with a negligible attempt at singing by Williams
later was recorded for Turn It Over, the second album. While Something
Spiritual and the unknown track are both unreleased music.
What
is apparent of Lifetime, the trio, is Larry Young's Hammond B-3 organ.
It is the main instrument here dictating the sound, a fat pumping organ
around which McLaughlin sprays his solos. Williams is everywhere else
plugging the gaps. Don't expect the jazz fusion here to be anything like
what you get from Lee Ritenour, Al Jarreau, Kenny G, Bob James or David
Sanborn, the names associated with jazz fusion present.
Instead,
you can hear traces of prog rock in Young's playing, big in ideas but
not melodic as in rock or jazz. If only the recording had been better,
this hot performance might get a higher recommendation. Still, there's
plenty to listen out for in the smallish soundstage.
Lifetime
lasted for just two years and gave direction to others like the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, Weather Report and Return To Forever to carry on breaking the
jazz-rock barrier. But none relied as heavily on the organ sound as Lifetime.
This
was shared by daveg9876, all thanks to him. Nothing here has been officially
released.
- Professor
Red 
Click on
the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality stereo
MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording
has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
To
Whom it May Concern (9.5MB) |
| Track
02 |
Emergency
(16.9MB)
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| Track
03 |
Unknown
Title (9.8MB) |
| Track
04 |
A
Famous Blues (9.4MB) |
| Track
05 |
Something
Spiritual (7.5MB) |
Tracks 1 and 2 radio
broadcast in New York, November 1969.
Tracks
3-5 studio sessions in New York 1969 recorded specially for the radio show.
Lineup:
Tony
Williams - drums
John McLaughlin
- guitar
Larry Young
- Hammond B-3 organ
The best Lifetime
to have is still the first, Emergency! This is the only album recorded
with the same trio of Williams, McLaughlin and Young. Click on the link to order the album.
In 1965, Larry Young also recorded the excellent album, Unity , for Blue
Note. In it he explored the boundaries of the jazz organ and distiguished
himself from Jimmy Smith. It is an essential purchase for any jazz fan.
Click on the link to order the album.
John McLaughlin's Extrapolation covers similar territory as his work with
Lifetime. Improvisational, jazz rock buzzing with electricity. Both albums
debuted in 1969. Except that the guitar is pre-eminent here. Click on the link
to order the album.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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