#Tony Williams

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Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams ("All Blues", Milan, 1964)

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Miles Davis - Jazz Villa, St. Louis, Missouri, May/June 1963

Posting through the panic? Yeah, I guess. As the country I call home chooses fear, nihilism and chaos once again — again! — I have to find solace in music ... somehow. At the moment, I truly have no idea what else to do.

So there's a fresh Miles Davis Bootleg Series coming out any minute now, which gathers several discs of live performances in France from 1963 and 1964, when Miles was getting together with younger musicians like Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, George Coleman, expanding and exploring his signature sound. There's plenty of stuff from this era around, of course, but it's always a pleasure to hear it cleaned up and presented in a way befitting of these sterling, still exciting performances.

As an addendum, check out Davis, Williams, Hancock and Coleman in their first extant live recording, an audience tape made just a couple weeks before they'd head out to Europe for a series of festival dates. The Jazz Villa! Sounds nice, right? This collection of musicians hadn't been together long, but they seem have already gelled, spurring their leader on to some seriously soaring heights. The MVP, however, might be Coleman, who — once Shorter solidified the Second Great Quintet's lineup — might not get his due these days. But his solos are all fantastic, curious and inventive and lively, especially on the killer "All Blues." A song for today, a song for every day for the foreseeable future! ALL BLUES.

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Jazz drummer Tony Williams

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Jazz Hot #274 (France) - juillet-août 1971 - Tony Williams

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NEXT OF KIN (1982) dir. Tony Williams

GERDA NICOLSON as Connie

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Next of Kin dir. Tony Williams

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Point of Departure is a studio album by American jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, recorded in 1964 and released in 1965 on the Blue Note label. It features Hill in a sextet with alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Tony Williams.

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Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams

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Miles Davis Quintet, Teatro dell'Arte, Milan, Italy, October 11th, 1964 (Colorized)

The band:

Miles Davis (trumpet),

Wayne Shorter (sax),

Herbie Hancock (piano),

Ron Carter (bass),

Tony Williams (drums)

Track:

Autumn Leaves 00:00

My Funny Valentine 15:07

All Blues 26:33

All of You 40:13

Joshua 50:47

The performance style of the Second Great Quintet was often referred to by Davis as "time, no changes", incorporating elements of free jazz without completely surrendering to the approach. This allowed the five musicians to simultaneously contribute to the group as equals at times, rather than to always follow the established pattern of having the group leader and then the backing musicians perform unrelated solos.

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Davis solía referirse al estilo de interpretación del Segundo Gran Quinteto como "tiempo, sin cambios", incorporando elementos de free jazz sin rendirse completamente a este enfoque. Esto permitía a los cinco músicos contribuir simultáneamente al grupo como iguales en ocasiones, en lugar de seguir siempre el patrón establecido de que el líder del grupo y luego los músicos de acompañamiento interpretaran solos no relacionados.

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Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Elvin Jones, drumming royalty in Japan, in 1966.

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Swing Journal (Japan) - April 1970 - Tony Williams

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Next of Kin (1982) Tony Williams

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Jazz drummer Tony Williams at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1970. Photo by David Redfern/Redferns.

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"Miles Smiles:" The Quintet's Exploration into New Jazz Territories

Introduction: Released in 1967, “Miles Smiles” is widely regarded as a landmark recording by Miles Davis and his Second Great Quintet, featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams. This album marked the quintet’s evolution into more experimental and abstract forms of jazz, blending traditional post-bop elements with avant-garde…