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Tony Williams

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 88: Acoustic Jazz Lives (1972 – 1978)

    Nov 23rd, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Azar Lawrence, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, John Stubblefield, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Scott Hamilton, Sonny Fortune, Sonny Rollins, Tony Williams, VSOP, Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw

    Woody Shaw Jazz-rock fusion was a powerful force in the music in the early seventies, but noticeably began to run out of steam mid-decade. European influences began to gain traction as the decade progressed as represented by the rise of ECM. American acoustic jazz musicians, who seemed to be taken for granted, continued to produce […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 84: John McLaughlin & The Mahavishnu Orchestra (1969 – 1972)

    Oct 26th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Billy Cobham, John McLaughlin, John Surman, Larry Young, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Oxley, Tony Williams, Tony Williams Lifetime

    John McLaughlin British guitarist John McLaughlin contributed to creating the bold new sound of Miles Davis’s great proto-fusion works, In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. He was a member of what could be the first great fusion band, Tony Williams Lifetime, and then founded what Ben Ratliff describes as “the ideal band for the […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 83: Road to Fusion (1967 – 1972)

    Oct 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Gary Burton, Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Larry Young, Miles Davis, Tony Williams

    Miles Davis Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rhythms, it could be loud and fast, but just as likely, could be melodic or lyrical or funky. The Charles Lloyd Quartet, the Gary Burton Quartet, Tony Williams Lifetime and […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 78: Sons of Miles – Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Tony Williams (1964 – 1968)

    Sep 14th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

    Tony Williams During the five-year tenure of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968), Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were very active on their own projects, many of which included Ron Carter. Several of the resulting releases are classics of the period and laid the foundation for their significant careers after the […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968)

    Sep 7th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

    Miles Davis – Herbie Hancock – Wayne Shorter Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – liberation from chord changes, from rhythm, from harmony, from melody, from structure. Yet, although he continued to explore broadly, he was public in […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 75: The Hard Bop / Avant-Garde Synergy of Andrew Hill (1963 – 1965)

    Aug 24th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Woods, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Richard Davis, Tony Williams

    Andrew Hill Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label was best known for music on the Art Blakey – Horace Silver axis. As Ted Gioia has noted “…other, less radical Blue Note releases showed that there could be […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 73: Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks (1960 – 1963)

    Aug 10th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Freddie Redd, Grachan Moncur III, Jackie McLean, Tina Brooks, Tony Williams

    Tina Brooks Fate could not have treated Blue Note saxophonists Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean more differently. While McLean released nine LPs for Prestige and two dozen for Blue Note between 1956 and 1967, only one of Tina Brooks’s four Blue Note sessions was released in his lifetime. Yet their collaborations on McLean’s Jackie’s Bag […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 71: Silenced in Their Prime – Eric Dolphy & Booker Little (1961 – 1964)

    Jul 27th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Hutcherson, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Max Roach, Oliver Nelson, Tony Williams

    Eric Dolphy – Booker Little at the Five Spot From his first recordings with Chico Hamilton in 1958 until his unnecessary death from misdiagnosed diabetic shock in 1964, Eric Dolphy was limited to only six years in which to record the music that has defined his extraordinary legacy. Previously, in this series, we have heard from […]

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