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Anthony Tillmon Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) [1] was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame as a member of Miles Davis ' " Second Great Quintet," and later pioneered jazz fusion with Davis' group and his own combo, the Tony Williams Lifetime. [2] .
Samuel Edward " Tony " Williams (April 5, 1928 – August 14, 1992) [1] was an American singer. From 1953 to 1960, [2] he was the lead vocalist of the Platters. [3] Life and career. Williams was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of Bertha and Edward Williams. [1] .
Tony Williams Lifetime - "Believe It" - Columbia Records - 1975Allan Holdsworth – guitarAlan Pasqua – keyboardsTony Newton – bassTony Williams – drumsSONGS....
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Feb 10, 2024 · Let’s take a look at the revolutionary contributions and unparalleled influence of Tony Williams. From his groundbreaking collaborations with jazz icon Miles Davis, the advent of jazz fusion ...
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- Tony Williams The Drum Prodigy: Early Years in Boston
- Williams Moves to New York
- Miles Davis: The ’64 Concert and The Second Great Quintet
- Other 1960s Albums: Sideman and Bandleader
- Fusion and Jazz Rock
- The New Tony Williams Lifetime
- V.S.O.P and Williams’ Return to Straight Ahead Jazz
- Trio of Doom
- High Profile Rock and Pop Collaborations
- Tony Williams: A Mentor to The Next Generation
Anthony Tillmon Williams was born on 12 December 1945 in Chicago, but grew up in Boston, where he showed promise in his drum lessons with Alan Dawson from an early age. Dawson played with the likes of Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitzand countless others, and would go on to become a legendary teacher at Berklee College of Music, where a numbe...
Aged 16, Williams was hired by Jackie McLean, and in 1962, having just turned 17, he moved to New York, the undisputed epicentre of jazz. With the alto saxophonist he recorded Vertigo and One Step Beyond. Another early recording, also on Blue Note Records, was Kenny Dorham’s brilliant latin-tinged hard bop of Una Mas, from 1963. Trombonist Grachan ...
Tony Williams was still 17 when Miles Davisheard him playing with McLean. The trumpeter was instantly impressed: “Man, just hearing that little motherfucker made me excited all over again. Trumpet players love to play with great drummersand I could definitely hear right away that this was going to be one of the baddest motherfuckers who had ever pl...
Williams continued to play freelance record dates throughout the 1960s, and many of the resulting albums are now considered classics. In 1964 alone he appeared on Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, Andrew Hill’s Point of Departure and his old Boston mentor Sam Rivers’ Fuchsia Swing Song: all three are important documents of the ‘60s Avant garde movement. ...
In 1969 Williams appeared on Miles Davis’ seminal In a Silent Way, as major jazz musicians began to experiment with electric instrumentation. That same year the drummer, with his new band Lifetime, took what on paper appears to be a standard soul jazz organ trio, but instead created a pioneering fusion workthat was heavily influenced by the new sou...
In 1975 Williams returned with The New Tony Williams Lifetime, which now featured British guitarist Alan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua on keyboards and Tony Newton on bass. Holdsworth had played with prog rock bands like Soft Machine, while Pasqua and Newton were veteran session musicians. Now signed to Columbia Records, they released Believe It to posit...
1976 saw the formation V.S.O.P, a band which was essentially a reunion of the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet, but with Freddie Hubbard in the trumpet chair instead of Davis, who was in the midst of a hiatus from playing at the time. This marked something of a return to straight ahead acoustic jazz for Williams, as the quintet played classic ‘60s materia...
For the 1979 Havana Jam Festival in Cuba, Columbia Records brought together a fusion super group. With Williams and guitarist John McLaughlin joined by electric bass legend Jaco Pastorius, the Trio of Doom was born. Ernesto Juan Castellano’s documentary film Havana Jam ’79 captures the band’s sole live performance. The trio took to a studio shortly...
In 1985 Williams made an unlikely appearance on Album by the rock group Public Image Ltd, which was led by John Lydon, who is best known as lead vocalist for punk band the Sex Pistols. Williams shared the drum chair with legendary British rocker Ginger Baker, of progressive rock outfit Cream. Further high profile session work came the same year as ...
Williams returned to Blue Note in the mid-1980s, leading his own quintet, featuring talented up-and-coming musicians like pianist Mulgrew Miller and trumpeter Wallace Roney. He focused on recording his own compositions: he had long wanted to receive the same kind of recognition for his writing and all-round musicianship that he had for his technica...
Jan 8, 2023 · The true big bang of fusion arrived right on the heels of In a Silent Way, and well before Bitches Brew: Emergency!, the Tony Williams Lifetime’s aptly named 1969 debut.
Mar 15, 2022 · Born Anthony Tillmon Williams in Chicago in 1945 and raised in Boston, Tony Williams is widely considered one of the most inventive and influential jazz drummers of the 20th century.
