TONY WILLIAMS: INNOVATOR, GENIUS, BOY WONDER, DEAD AT 51.
Vložit
- čas přidán 4. 08. 2019
- Tony Williams changed the face of jazz, not once, but twice. The musician who invented jazz rock "fusion," the drummer who influenced everyone from Vinnie Colaiuta to Dennis Chambers to Steve Gadd, but never received his due credit from a record industry that cheated and ignored him. Tony's legacy burns brightly!
www.bluenote.com/artist/anthon...
ME
Facebook: / jazzv. .
Instagram: micallef_stereophile_writer
Stereophile: www.stereophile.com/writer/16...
Thanks for the upload....Tony Williams was an absolute beast on the drums.
Tony Williams "Believe it" is one of my favorite recordings, the one with him on the front cover holding a pair of drum sticks.
Right on. Tony had a singular style, more music, more polyrhythms, more color.
Perhaps my favorite. Four and More does not get it's due. George Coleman plays wonderfully on that album and it pisses me off that Wayne Shorter (who is great) is seen as a savoir to this band when I think Coleman's contribution is unforgettable. I understand Wayne's compositions are great but here I think Coleman does a stellar job.
Lastly I love the Great Jazz Trio with Hank Jones. I think those sides are really magical and I have never heard any drummer play in a trio setting like Tony does on these fantastic recordings. The Best. Charles
Apparently Tony told Miles to replace Coleman since he just wasn't completely melding. While I think Coleman was great too Shorter took it to the next level.
Thanks Ken. Again, a real service to the music community.
Love the stories! Best video yet!
People bitched about how loud i played but i'm sure he got few complaints
because he was a genius.One of my main influences . He showed that ANYTHING
is possible on drums and in life.
Tony on Hal Galper’s Now Hear This is so killer. One of my top records in any genre.
Thanks for mentioning that..I never knew about this recording until now... and you are right
Wow great video ken so much information on this great legend thank you!!!
Thanks for this and all your other great videos. I hear many people say Tony's two main sound centers (young vs old) are disconnected from each other. I hear the "old Tony" concept developing through the succession of his body of work. Maybe I'm interpreting you too literally. No doubt his cymbal sound turned 180 but his later melodic concepts and approach are evident even as early as Miles Smiles in my opinion. Certainly on Filles De Killimanjaro, Silent Way and Emergency where he uses a larger drumset but not the yellow one. Perhaps a little unfair to gloss over that period as unfocused. It's the primordial ooze.
Also, Ken I would love to hear your thoughts on Spring! I think Tony's involvement in freer music prior to the formation of Lifetime was also very aesthetically influential. He might have had as much to do with the foundation of the ECM style as he had with the foundation of fusion. and I think Tony was checking out the Ornette quartet with Higgins heavily.
Lifetime & Spring are 2 Excellent Anthony Williams albums on Blue Note!
learning so much from you thank you !
Fantastic video, man!
Excellent Vid. Well done.
Wow Tony live at the village gate with the believe itband....thanks Ken......
Wow Ken! Monster, killer video and so fitting of the powerful Tony Williams.
Another informative video Ken. I wasn't aware of the the release of the either of these LPs, so thanks for the info. Was just listening to "Blues for Tony" yesterday. Such a great live recording. Chad ain't Tony, but he does a smokin' job on those tunes. Cheers!
Apparently the Live at the Village Gate is blocked from sale on Discogs. Must be pretty awful quality for that.
Wanna say thanks for making me aware of these two albums. Pretty difficult to find locally but was able to order them from Amazon UK.
Cool. Again, the sound quality is nil, but the playing/performance is off the chain!
Thanks for that.
Agree with you about Tony. "Force of nature" may be a cliche but truly applies in his case. Oh yeah, Mahavishnu were the kings of fusion, and I say that loving Weather Report (two of my favorite bands); saw them both.
ThxK💎
Without the first Lifetime album, Emergency!, we wouldn’t have bands like The Mars Volta, IMO.. The second Lifetime album with Jack Bruce was also great.. The mid 70’s with Allan Holdsworth is my favorite era of Allan’s.. RIP, Tony and Allan.. Oh, is there a reissue too of Trio of Doom (sessions) with Mclaughlin and Pastorius?
The
On the Prestige label. Thanks!
What was the album that you opened and closed the video with. I want to get that. Thanks for the great video. Too bad he was taken advantage of and died because of carelessness.
I love his drumming on the self titled Stanley Clarke album.
Have you heard the Trio Of Doom CD? Recordings of Tony, McLaughlin and Jaco Pastorious. If they would have stayed together, they would have re-defined the word legend.
I’ve only heard it on CZcams, but I like Jaco’s playing on it way more than the stuff with Weather Report. Way funkier
emergency is the goat album for jazz rock tony seemed to be his own worse enemy
Thanks for the insight. You referred to him as harsh and as scarry. Do you know something that gave you that impression?
In interviews he seems very nice and polite.
He was more stern than anything else. Probably didn't want to do press
Great video! Tony is my absolute favorite, but it was cool to hear (see?) you name drop Zach Danzinger! He played on the last Walt Mink record which is one of the best recorded drumming performances imo. Absolutely unreal drummer
When I was still a drummer, Zach and I played double drums at drummer's collective. I hipped him to Vinnie Colaiuta and drum and bass. He hipped me to the fact that I would never be as great as he is, so why bother?!
Is it possible to listen to this interview?
@@magn8195 do you mean my interview with Tony? It's on a tape in my loft somewhere. I am hoping to turn all my old interviews into a podcast. Thank you
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Awesome! Tony is my idol and it's just really hard to find interviews with him where he shares his musical experience.
@@magn8195 jazztonesblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/tony-williams-bridge-to-the-beyond-downbeat-2008/
What's the name of the intro song?
Thanks ken. Always value your insight. Love tony williams. I should give his later work a closer listen. I always felt he was ignored at the hospital (oh, its just some black dude...marin (all white) general hospital...just another black man. Iam glad they sued their ass off. I did'nt know that. I lived in marin for awhile so i know what it can be like there if your a minority. Anyhow tony was a major innovator. I loved the miles in europe album where miles was so proud of him with great ralph gleason liner notes. Thanks again!
Great, thank you. Any idea if the new hi hat pressings are worth to buy?
As noted in the review, the sound quality of these 2 pressings is poor, but the music makes up for it
Thanks Ken, I am not a native speaker and did unfortunately miss that part.
Any time someone says we would never have a V. Coliauta or D. Chambers, etc. etc. etc. I cant believe it's true. Would they sound the way they do if they never heard T. Williams? No. But these are creative minds who would have gone on to develop their own things based on EVERYTHING they heard in their life. There are enough other innovative drummers/musicians in the improvised world/cannon that they would have run with all of that to create something original and new.
But the fact remains, Tony who founded fusion, is the major influence on Vinnie and Chambers and Cobham and Lenny White. Sure they heqrd other drummers, but Tony is the lasting master.
Listen to Vinnie with Zappa or jOE Diorio, he's phrasing right off of Believe It, Nefertiti, MIles Smiles. Every musician has his genesis, before he finds his own style. Vinnie amalgamated Gadd and Tony, then brought his genius to bear. NO ONE exists or creates in a vacuum.
Duh, 16 16th notes in a bar, the second two 16ths of each quarter note beat accented...and creating the standard jazz ride cymbal beat.
Thanks for insight
Giant!...
FYI look up the video of Mike Clark on Tony. You'll thank me later.
I know great Bebop drummers who can't cut a gospel gig. Don't have a clue. It's all feel!
So what? There are gospel drummers who can't swing their way out of a straight jacket. Especially "gospel chops" drummers, who play drums, not music.
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Best reply I've seen on the internet!!
Ya know since I got that stick out of my ass about fusion (I am much younger than that now) I wouldn't listen to anything fater "In A Silent Way" but I should give the Lifetime stuff a shot.Still I find it interesting the last session he ever did was very straight ahead CD with Mulgrew Miller and Ira Coleman "Young At Heart" (I tremble to correct you Obi-Wan but "Young" Was Sept '96 and "Wilderness" was Dec '95).It seems like everyone near the end goes back into the pocket.
Hey Dude, you been feeding steroids to you Stabi??????What is that a plinth Stabi or the R?Looking good.Must say I think your rig (with the exception of Luxman which to me seems a bit over the top) is CORRECT.Not to much but I think a Stabi/Stogi,with Line Magnetic into 93's would be an end game for any reasonable person.And yes your Luxman would suit me fine too especially if I could swing one of the mult headshell Kuzmas (my bud just got the Stabi/313 Ref and likes it quite a bit fed into a Chinook/Primanlun EL34 and Devore 3XL'sYou guys should hang.).Now that R deck with four arm boards now that's just nuts and I would be all yeah but I am in neighborhood of the SME 15 and it would cause me to be institutionalized fretting over it.Good looking deck though.
I just getting into the music then you open your mouth🙄
All the info is on wiki anyway
No!
Alan Shulman Know what? Can you only Babel a single word? Are you some kind of ignoramus?