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New Remastered Uk Cd Edition Of The Classic Album By
Tony Williams Lifetime Featuring Jack Bruce, John
Mclaughlin And Larry Young
Includes The Single One World As A Bonus Track
Booklet With Fully Restored Artwork & New Essay
Tony Williams Lifetime Featuring Jack Bruce, John
Mclaughlin And Larry Young
Includes The Single One World As A Bonus Track
Booklet With Fully Restored Artwork & New Essay
Esoteric Recordings Are Pleased To Release The Second
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. In 1970
Legendary Bassist & Vocalist Jack Bruce Joined The Group To
Record The Outstanding Turn It Over . Far Ahead Of Its
Time, The Album Was To Influence Future Fusion Groups.
This Esoteric Recordings Edition Includes The Bonus Track
One World , Is Newly Re-Mastered, Restores The Original
Album Artwork And Includes A New Essay.
Tracklistings: Track Listing
1. To Whom It May Concern Them
2. To Whom It May Concern Us
3. This Night This Song
4. Big Nick
5. Right On
6. Once I Loved
7. Vuelta Abajo
8. A Famous Blues
9. Allah Be Praised
10. One World
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This is an exploration of both inner and outer space by one of the best bands ever. John McLaughlin's aciddrenched guitar, pointing forward to his psychedelic classic "Devotion", the other-worldly organ of Larry Young and the driving, restless and bombastic drumming of maestro Tony Williams. Add to this bass-master Jack Bruce on a couple of tracks and you got this most wonderful combination of "Bitches Brew" and Cream, when they were best. Some of the most uncompromising and adventurous music ever on record.
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Hell! This is loud! Even with the sound turned right down the intensity is such that you worry about the neighbours. Mostly the sonic attack is good; just occasionally it seems gratuitous, as on the opening track when the band repeat the same lick for what seems an eternity - it's a bit like a wanton child, seeing how long he can sustain the naughtiness before retribution strikes.
Born at a time when supergroups were the in thing, Lifetime look like the jazz-rock equivalent of Blind Faith, complete with ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce where Blind Faith took Clapton and Ginger Baker. From a personal point of view I prefer John McLaughlin's guitar to Clapton's, but there are no singers to match Clapton's blues or Steve Winwood's soul, so the tracks where Lifetime burst into song are possibly best consigned to experience. This is nowhere so true as on One Word, where Jack Bruce attempts to emulate the instruments in progressing through the scale from low register to high, but is unable to pull it off. Four years later, McLaughlin revived a part of the tune as Resolution, on Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds Of Fire album, but with Jerry Goodman's violin substituting for the vocals to much better effect.
With the band's sound augmented by Larry Young's organ, there are times when I thought of The Nice when listening to the album - not a bad thing in my book. It's a superficial thing, but also in keeping with the times as there were plenty of bands around at the time which relied on the Hammond for muscle (Deep Purple, Colloseum, and Keith Emerson's post-Nice supergroup ELP). That means that, although it took me forty years to get round to Turn It Over I feel a sense of nostalgia in listening to it.
And talking of nostalgia, Vuelta Abajo features a bass line reminiscent of Sunshine Of Your Love, but this time it's McLaughlin's guitar to the fore, driven by Williams's thunderous drums, and the clearest difference being in Young's keyboard.
So although this is not by any means a perfect collection there is enough to recommend this record: great musicianship by a group of musicians at different stages in their careers, with some interesting points of comparison between other projects in which they participated, not least for anyone familiar with Williams and McLaughlin on Miles's In A Silent Way, recorded in much the same period.
Born at a time when supergroups were the in thing, Lifetime look like the jazz-rock equivalent of Blind Faith, complete with ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce where Blind Faith took Clapton and Ginger Baker. From a personal point of view I prefer John McLaughlin's guitar to Clapton's, but there are no singers to match Clapton's blues or Steve Winwood's soul, so the tracks where Lifetime burst into song are possibly best consigned to experience. This is nowhere so true as on One Word, where Jack Bruce attempts to emulate the instruments in progressing through the scale from low register to high, but is unable to pull it off. Four years later, McLaughlin revived a part of the tune as Resolution, on Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds Of Fire album, but with Jerry Goodman's violin substituting for the vocals to much better effect.
With the band's sound augmented by Larry Young's organ, there are times when I thought of The Nice when listening to the album - not a bad thing in my book. It's a superficial thing, but also in keeping with the times as there were plenty of bands around at the time which relied on the Hammond for muscle (Deep Purple, Colloseum, and Keith Emerson's post-Nice supergroup ELP). That means that, although it took me forty years to get round to Turn It Over I feel a sense of nostalgia in listening to it.
And talking of nostalgia, Vuelta Abajo features a bass line reminiscent of Sunshine Of Your Love, but this time it's McLaughlin's guitar to the fore, driven by Williams's thunderous drums, and the clearest difference being in Young's keyboard.
So although this is not by any means a perfect collection there is enough to recommend this record: great musicianship by a group of musicians at different stages in their careers, with some interesting points of comparison between other projects in which they participated, not least for anyone familiar with Williams and McLaughlin on Miles's In A Silent Way, recorded in much the same period.
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Excellent and totally unique album in jazz-rock fusion. dark, weird and diverse. The addition of Jack Bruce with his blues/rock influence certainly adds to the mix.
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