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Tony Williams Lifetime: Red Alert (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 10, 08

This collection, a combination of the two releases Believe It and Million Dollar Legs, features what was known as The...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 22, 08

I always have felt a bit sorry for Tony Williams. Here was a truly gifted artist who as a 17-year-old kid was playing...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Vuelta Abajo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Even today, The Tony Williams Lifetime is an acquired taste. Heard live back in 1969 and '70, its music could be dang...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TUNES THAT TAKE YOU PLACES

Artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's Note: Walter Kolosky recently contributed memorable Dozens columns o...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Beyond Games (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music December 06, 08

Someday I will very carefully ask John McLaughlin what he thought about Tony Williams's singing. There was a more dem...

Tony Williams: Neptune: Overture (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

Tony Williams's post-fusion career proved more successful for him than his fusion years. Though he was one of th...

The Tony Williams Lifetime: This Night This Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

This is the kind of weirdness I love. It's a great statement by polished, highly skilled musicians, including Cream's...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Ron Carter (with Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams): Lawra (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

You could hardly imagine a simpler composition -- a repeated two-note figure, with a syncopated displace- ment in bar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK PERFORMANCES

When Miles Davis hired Herbie Hancock (along with Ron Carter and Tony Williams) in 1963, few fans believed that this ...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Vashkar (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 06, 08

Tony Williams Lifetime sounds like it was recorded in a cardboard box. The poor sound quality of this band's recordin...

Ron Carter (with Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams): Third Plane (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

Ron Carter served as sideman on so many Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams sessions, and now he brings his stalwart col...

Tony Williams: Neptune: Creatures of Conscience (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

"Neptune: Creatures of Conscience" is the third and final part of an unnamed suite. The song is a true showcase for o...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Spectrum (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 22, 08

"Spectrum" first appeared on John McLaughlin's Extrapolation, recorded in England in 1968. On that recording he credi...

Stanley Clarke: Lopsy Lu (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 06, 08

The musicians on Stanley Clarke were a who's who of the early fusion movement. If basketball could be played with fou...

Jonas Hellborg: Black Rite (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

Bassist Jonas Hellborg says "Black Rite" was assembled in the studio. I take that to mean it was created on the spot ...

Trio of Doom: Dark Prince (live) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 21, 08

Very briefly in the late 1970s there was a cooling down of the rhetoric between the United States and communist Cuba....

Stanley Clarke: Power (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

Any tune that begins with a Tony Williams drum solo is an important one to listen to. The aptly named "Power," which ...

V.S.O.P.: Darts (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

Herbie takes one his most exuberant solos on “Darts" from V.S.O.P.–The Quintet, which is a live album recorded in 197...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: URI CAINE SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK TRACKS

Few jazz-related artists are busier these days than pianist-composer Uri Caine, whose international career transpires...

Miles Davis: Four (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

If there's one rhythm section that can rival the influence of the Classic Coltrane Quartet, it is Miles Davis's Secon...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

“My Funny Valentine” made such a strong impression on me when I first heard it. I understood how standards could be o...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: URI CAINE SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK TRACKS

Few jazz-related artists are busier these days than pianist-composer Uri Caine, whose international career transpires...

Jonas Hellborg: Zat (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

Much of bassist Jonas Hellborg's The Word was homage to Tony Williams's Lifetime, the fiery progenitor of the ja...

Miles Davis: Walkin' (1964 live version) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

     Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Along with Brown/Roach and Coltrane/Jones, the musical p...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

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