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New Remastered Uk Cd Edition Of The Classic
Debut Album By Tony Williams Lifetime
Featuring John Mclaughlin And Larry Young
Booklet With Fully Restored Artwork & New
Essay.
Debut Album By Tony Williams Lifetime
Featuring John Mclaughlin And Larry Young
Booklet With Fully Restored Artwork & New
Essay.
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to release the first album
by the legendary jazz / rock / fusion outfit Tony Williams
Lifetime. The group was founded by former Miles Davis
drummer Tony Williams in 1969 out of his desire to fuse
the influences of modern jazz and rock music. Recruiting
legendary British guitarist John McLaughlin and organist
Larry Young, Williams recorded the album Emergency! . It
was a stunning and seminal work that divided critics in both
jazz and rock but is now rightly regarded as being a
groundbreaking work.
This Esoteric Recordings edition is newly re-mastered and
restores the original album artwork and includes a new
essay.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE TRUE ROOTS OF 70's JAZZ-ROCK,
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This review is from: Emergency (Audio CD)
A welcome release on CD for an LP that transcended categorisation on it's release in the late 60's, not exactly selling in shedloads and thus making it very difficult to find on vinyl in the 70's !Whilst it cannot be denied for a moment that Miles Davis was responsible for introducing like-minded musicians to each other for the recordings that he was making around the time of 'Emergency !' ( and spawning so much great music in years to come in doing so... ) I still think that this release stands up as the first truly 'Electric Jazz' album. Sure, there are elements of the kind of Hammond/Bar-chord -fuelled grooves of Jimmys Smith & McGriff swinging around, but it's as though Williams made a conscious Quantum Leap here - to produce something altogether more loud and crackling and more in tune with contemporary rock. Regardless of what you may think of the kind of 'Jazz-rock' that I think this music made possible, both this and the equally wonderful follow-up 'Turn it over' are recordings featuring some of the finest playing you'll hear anywhere from Larry Young, John McLaughlin and Tony Williams. Check it out, crank it up - hear those amps buzz, watch for goosebumps on your forearms !!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the first and best "jazz-rock" albums ever made,
This review is from: Emergency (Audio CD)
This is a record, you should own, if you only wanna have a handful - and you sure don't need many more - of jazz-rock or fusion-records (the other four should be Miles Davis' Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969, rec. 1968), In A Silent Way (1969), Bitches Brew (1970) and Jack Johnson (1971, rec. 1970) with Mahavishnus The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) as a close contender). Emergency, originally released as a double-lp, is in almost every way excellent! Lead by perhaps the most vivid, innovative and inspiring drummer of all times, Tony Williams, together with guitarist John McLaughlin and - the sometimes sadly overlooked - organist Larry Young, it consists of an awesome collections of hard driving and swinging jazzrock-sessions recorded live in the studio. There is one small minus, which is why I won't give it a five star rating: Tony Williams felt the need to sing on a few of the tracks. A bad habit which he contuined on the less interesting follow-up Turn It Over (1970).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Agree with all of the above, and ...,
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This review is from: Emergency (Audio CD)
Had this on vinyl way back when, and lately on CD ... and agree with nearly all that's been said. So why say anything? 1. I disagree that it was really a jazz-rock construct at all, if anything more an impossible jazz-punk thing, screech & roar until you're sore. 2. I disagree about Johnny Mac's later electric output, personally I found the M Orch dull and retrograde compared to Lifetime (& he was doing other stuff with JCOA, and later acoustic stuff on My Goal's Beyond and with Shakti which was innovative), 3. this is just high energy expert bad noise fun!
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