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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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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format: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.
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 !!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Neil Mawer
Format:Audio CD
I agree with the 5 star reveiwer, say what you will about Bitches Brew, THIS is where jazz rock started, and it was never so energetic again (If you don't believe me listen to Schofields/DeJohnettes & Goldings Trio Beyond versions of Lifetime classics. Brilliantly recorded, fairly boring by comparison)
And so to this albums faults. Yes it was recorded on a faulty 8 track tape machine. This Verve remaster is just a clearer version of the faults!Try and find the 1991 Polygram U.S. REMIX. Legendary engineer Phil Schaap, actually modified an old 8 track machine to negate the faults on the session tapes, then remixed the 8 tracks to a new master.(Polydor 849 068-2)
And when he remixed it he should have left out the vocal tracks of Tony Williams (I hesitate to call it singing)The album should have been all instrumental from the start! Or Schaap could have called in the great Jack Bruce to do the singing, as Tony Williams did in 1970.
So historically important, 50% totally brilliant (especially the remix), but oh those vocals. At least Tony Williams realised that and brought in Jack Bruce as a member in 1970 for live gigs and an appearance on their final 45 "One World/Two Worlds".
And so to this albums faults. Yes it was recorded on a faulty 8 track tape machine. This Verve remaster is just a clearer version of the faults!Try and find the 1991 Polygram U.S. REMIX. Legendary engineer Phil Schaap, actually modified an old 8 track machine to negate the faults on the session tapes, then remixed the 8 tracks to a new master.(Polydor 849 068-2)
And when he remixed it he should have left out the vocal tracks of Tony Williams (I hesitate to call it singing)The album should have been all instrumental from the start! Or Schaap could have called in the great Jack Bruce to do the singing, as Tony Williams did in 1970.
So historically important, 50% totally brilliant (especially the remix), but oh those vocals. At least Tony Williams realised that and brought in Jack Bruce as a member in 1970 for live gigs and an appearance on their final 45 "One World/Two Worlds".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By P. Delli
Format:Audio CD
Managed to get the US double LP from the depths of provencial France in 1969 and I still have it...
What can I say... I quite like the fact it's low budjet, sounds like when you walk the streets half drunked and you hear these muddled sounds from a fantastic and unreal band playing in a pub cellar, GREAT!!!
Full of problems, but the highs are worth the wait... I reckon they did it on purpose, the problems... If it had been better done, they would have lost the edge and then, it allows you to criticise something!!! Otherwise, you'd have been so totally gobsmasked, you'd never had bought another record in your life.
Patrick
What can I say... I quite like the fact it's low budjet, sounds like when you walk the streets half drunked and you hear these muddled sounds from a fantastic and unreal band playing in a pub cellar, GREAT!!!
Full of problems, but the highs are worth the wait... I reckon they did it on purpose, the problems... If it had been better done, they would have lost the edge and then, it allows you to criticise something!!! Otherwise, you'd have been so totally gobsmasked, you'd never had bought another record in your life.
Patrick
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5.0 out of 5 stars
High octane
Though slightly less likely to leave your ears bleeding than Turn It Over, this is still nevertheless loud enough to leave them ringing between tracks. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Steve Keen
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the first and best "jazz-rock" albums ever made
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'... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2011 by Carsten
4.0 out of 5 stars
Agree with all of the above, and ...
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. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2009 by Nicholas Lake
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but deeply flawed
There are some immense talents at work on this album, but unfortunately not particularly well directed. Read more
Published on 13 April 2008 by Crispy Phosphorous
3.0 out of 5 stars
Historically important but not vital
This album is historically important but deeply flawed. The original sound quality is awful-the pickups on McLaughlin's guitar were broken, the organ continually squeals and... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2003 by Alexander G. Marshall
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